DAVID LLOYD BOOK READING & SIGNING

Anchored in the community of first-, second-, and third-generation
Welsh Americans in Utica, New York, during the 1960s,
the stories in David Lloyd’s The Moving of the Water
delve into universal concerns: identity, home, religion,
language, culture, belonging, personal and national histories,
mortality. Unflinching in their portrayal of the traumas and conflicts of fictional
Welsh Americans, these stories also embrace multiple communities
and diverse experiences in linked, innovative narratives:
soldiers fighting in World War I and in Vietnam,
the criminal underworld, the poignant struggles of children and adults
caught between old and new worlds. The complexly damaged
characters of these surprising and affecting stories
seek transformation and revelation, healing and
regeneration: a sometimes traumatic “moving of the water.”

COPIES OF THE BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE