Chubby and I stood staring at the stove
door, watching the flare of the burning letter. Someday had
suddenly become starkly, terribly real. This town we loved,
everything we knew, the very roads we walked on, would soon
rest beneath the waters of a giant reservoir, like some
scene in a dime-store waterglobe. What would become of us,
of me and Chubby, and Mama and Gran? And what about all our
friends and neighbors? Who would we be without Enfield to
bind us together? "Koller excels in making Celie fully
human and three dimensional. The town of Enfield becomes a
character like any other in the story, triggering emotion
and tears." VOYA
