Author: Athol Dickson

ISBN: 076420162X

The year is 1927 during the great Mississippi flood when Athol Dickson's latest novel, River Rising, unfolds. Rev. Hale Poser arrives early one morning, poling a boat you stand in called a pirogue into the stilt village of Pilotville, Louisiana. A recent discovery of a manila envelope in the attic of an old mansion filled with sleeping children was the spark that ignited this journey to Pilotville in search of his parents or at least their tombstone. Poser needed to purge himself of the trauma of not knowing his true identity.

Poser finds work as a janitor in the Pilotville Negro Infirmary earning forty-five cents a day. The infirmary had been built in 1894 as a gift to the community by a prominent wealthy white man, Vincent (Papa) DeGroot, who happens to also be the villagers