The Waters of Kronos

Summary

An aging writer travels back to the Pennsylvania coal town of his childhood, only to find the place drowned beneath a reservoir, and slips into a dreamlike encounter with the long-dead family and community he left behind. Richter blends regional realism with a quietly mythic sense of time, framing the journey almost as a descent into an American underworld. The novel is a meditation on memory, loss, and the cost of progress.