Michael Spurgeon's 'Let the Water Hold Me Down' - June 27th

Time Tested Books presents 

Michael Spurgeon

reading and signing his debut novel,

Let the Water Hold Me Down

Thursday, June 27th, at 7:00pm

 Still reeling from the loss of his family in an accident that he feels responsible for, Hank Singer accepts an invitation to move to the isolated and beautiful Mexican state of Chiapas. There, in the streets and cafes of a colonial city nestled in the mountain forests, he settles into the semblance of a new life under the watchful eye of his best friend and former college roommate César, the charismatic heir to one of Mexico's most powerful families. But when an army of impoverished Indians calling themselves Zapatistas emerges from the jungle to seize half the state, Hank finds himself a foreigner trapped in someone else's war. The repercussions of the decisions he makes—and does not make—threaten to shatter both his friendship and the renewed life he has found in the Mexican highlands. In the tradition of Graham Greene's The Quiet American and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Let the Water Hold Me Down weaves real historical events into a riveting personal narrative about a man who finds himself caught up in a political landscape beyond his control.

Michael Spurgeon was residing in San Cristóbal de las Casas at the time of the Zapatista Uprising. He and his wife and their two children currently live in Sacramento, California, where he is a tenured professor of English at American River College.

This event is FREE and open to the public.