On Thursday, November 19, at 6:30 p.m., author Matthew Neill Null will visit WordPlay bookstore in Wardensville to discuss Floodgate, his new historical novel about a former West Virginia coal miner who encounters corruption and cultural upheaval working on the Summerville Dam Project in the 1960s. Null is a native of Nicholas County, West Virginia, where his family has lived for generations.
In Floodgate, former coal miner Lance Drennen takes a job as an overseer for the construction of an immense flood-control dam, which will drown 2,800 acres of land that have been in his and other local families for many years. When Lance witnesses a terrible accident and discovers irregularities on the site that are guaranteed to line the pockets of the company and the local government, he must decide whether or not he will become a whistle-blower.
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