DEEP WATER
This is a work of narrative nonfiction which melds together the realities of three unique people who have had to deal with the consequences of dams in very distinct ways.

There is Medha Patkar, the world's foremost antidam activist, who during a decade and a half of protest over a dam in Western India repeatedly tried drowning herself in rising reservoir waters and went on hunger strikes of up to 26 days; Thayer Scudder, an American anthropologist considered the world's foremost authority on dam resettlement; and Don Blackmore, the chief executive of the commission charged with managing Australia's only major river system, the Murray-Darling.

Leslie engages with each to create a telling account of the impact of dams.

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U.S. - Farrar, Straus and Giroux