The Lowering Days - Gregory Brown Audiobook

Written by Gregory Brown
Read by Nicole Altvater, David Aaron Baker
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: The Lowering Days
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Gregory Brown
Narrator: Nicole Altvater, David Aaron Baker
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: HarperAudio
ISBN: 9780063069220
Subjects: Fiction, Literature

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 11
Total Size: 273 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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“In The Lowering Days Gregory Brown gives us a lush, almost mythic
portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more
universal for its singularity. There’s magic here.” —Richard Russo,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls and Chances Are
A promising literary star makes his debut with this emotionally
powerful saga, set in 1980s Maine, that explores family love, the
power of myths and storytelling, survival and environmental
exploitation, and the ties between cultural identity and the land we
live onIf you paid attention, you could see the entire unfolding of
human history in a story . . .
Growing up, David Almerin Ames and his brothers, Link and Simon,
believed the wild patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot
River belonged to them. Running down the state like a spine, the river
shared its name with the people of the Penobscot Nation, whose
ancestral territory included the entire Penobscot watershed—the land
upon which the Ames family eventually made their home.
The brothers’ affinity for the natural world derives from their
iconoclastic parents, Arnoux, a romantic artist and Vietnam War
deserter who builds boats by hand, and Falon, an activist journalist
who runs The Lowering Days, a community newspaper which gives equal
voice to indigenous and white issues.
But the boys’ childhood reverie is shattered when a bankrupt paper
mill, once the Penobscot Valley’s largest employer, is burned to the
ground on the eve of potentially reopening. As the community grapples
with the scope of the devastation, Falon receives a letter from a
Penobscot teenager confessing to the crime—an act of justice for a
sacred river under centuries of assault.
For the residents of the Penobscot Valley, the fire reveals a stark
truth. For many, the mill is a lifeline, providing working class jobs
they need to survive. Within the Penobscot Nation, the mill is a
bringer of death, spewing toxic chemicals and wastewater products that
poison the river’s fish and plants.
As the divide within the community widens, the building anger and
resentment explodes in tragedy, wrecking the lives of David and those
around him.
Evocative and atmospheric, pulsating with the rhythms of the natural
world, The Lowering Days is a meditation on the flow and weight of
history, the power and fragility of love, the dangerous fault lines
underlying families, and the enduring land where stories are created
and told.