About the Book: Dams
A novel about the power of storytelling to make sense of the world that is
bursting with life, from the acclaimed author of When I Sing, Mountains Dance.
After three years spent studying abroad, Ada returns to her rural village and is
once again driving around with Vicen Jr. and coming home giddy late in the
summer night. She spends long days recounting stories and inventing some of her
own: like the story of the farmer who lost two fingers in a combine and who
loves to dance; the story of an attack by a cow; the story of earrings, angrily
tossed