Floodmarks

In 1984, cub reporter George Flack hopes for his first big story at the Asheville Citizen-Times. Instead, he is assigned a cranky reader: Miss Nellie Lusk, who demands a correction and apology after the newspaper mistakenly listed her among the dead in the devastating Flood of 1916. As George uncovers the truths behind her family' s losses and her recovery from a crippling case of polio, he is forced to confront the secrets he has long buried. Decades later, he returns to Asheville on the b...