Flood Stage -- A Novel
()
About this ebook
The floodwaters keep rising, the torrential rains continue, and suddenly your life and home are thrust onto flood stage. How do you react to the peril? Do you stay or flee? What do you choose to carry away, and what do you hope to leave behind?
Ferocious rains pummel Thalburg Canyon and overfill the Baptista River that runs through a tight-knit rural community in Northern California.
When flooding ensues, canyon residents are forced to make life-altering decisions, and their interconnected stories are acted out on center stage. A paralyzed woman, exhausted by her life, plans an opportune death in the flood. The local real estate agent is shocked to discover beauty in the canyon's demise. Couples drift together or apart over old affairs and insurance coverage mistakes. A man burdened by a toxic secret struggles for atonement as the flood encroaches upon his final opportunity for redemption.
These and other stories portray a series of unique personal histories caught up in a universal human drama.
Acclaim for the author's memoir Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic
"This haunting memoir is an important addition to the canon of AIDS literature. Scannell writes beautifully and with an insight that escapes most physicians."
—Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country and Cutting for Stone
"Kate Scannell is the rare doctor who has been transformed by her patients. In this irresistible, informative, and enormously moving book, she tells us not only her own story, but theirs."
—Gloria Steinem
"A remarkable book, part history, part memoir, that reads with the grace and eloquence of good fiction."
—Bay Area Reporter
"... an enormously moving, thoughtful and compassionate memoir."
—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Acclaim for the author's psychological thriller Immortal Wounds: A Doctor Nora Kelly Mystery
"Immortal Wounds is a compelling, richly textured mystery that draws us deeply into the cloistered world of the hospital. A murderer or two may be on the loose in Scannell's thriller, but the psychological struggles and ethical mysteries encountered daily by her doctors and nurses prove just as riveting. A must-read!"
—Jodi Halpern, MD, author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice
Kate Scannell
Kate Scannell is a physician and author who lives, writes, and gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is finally enjoying the focused time she’s promised herself to write the medical mysteries she's longed to tell. Immortal Wounds—the first in her series involving crack internist Dr. Nora Kelly and colleagues at Oakland City Hospital—was published in September, 2018. Kate has published extensively in both lay and professional venues. She was a regular opinion columnist (2000-2014) for several Bay Area newspapers and their digital outlets, including The Oakland Tribune and The Contra Costa Times. Her columns explored the ethical and sociopolitical dimensions of modern medicine and health care. In 1999, she published her memoir Death of the Good Doctor—Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic (Cleis Press). The book relates her experiences serving as the medical director for one of the country's first hospital AIDS wards during the early HIV epidemic years (1985-1990) when most patients suffered quick deaths. Her memoir also recounts her coming-of-age as a woman physician during this unique time. After her book went out of print, she acquired its rights and published it in digital (2010) and book (2012) formats. In the interim, Kate published Flood Stage—A Novel, a collection of twenty interrelated stories about people living in a diverse rural community whose lives are threatened when torrential rains overfill the local river. When flood stage arrives and apocalyptic flooding ensues, residents of this tight-knit community must make swift and painful decisions. Do they stay or flee? What do they choose to carry away, what do they leave behind? In moments of urgent reckoning, their unique personal histories are acted out on center stage as a universal human drama unfolds. Though taking early leave of her medical career, Kate loved medicine and patient care. She was board certified in Internal Medicine; Rheumatology; Geriatrics; and, Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She intends to stay close to these interests through her future writing. She invites you to visit her website at: www.katescannellmd.com
Related to Flood Stage -- A Novel
Related ebooks
Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue: Herring Cove Road, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeautiful Joe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Most Dangerous Game: Richard Connell's Original Masterpiece Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Box Socials Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/57 best short stories by Ellis Parker Butler Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Elephant Girl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrace Elements Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCentaur of the Savannahs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Little Lion: A Hero in the Holocaust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptain Courageous Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIzzy's Fire: Finding Humanity In The Holocaust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prisoner, Stalag VIIA Moosburg Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Michael Dorris's "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdventures in Two Worlds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStorykeeper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5MJ Magazine: January 2019 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Short Story Hour - Volume 5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen They Made Us Leave: Emotional Stories of WWII Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThey Have Conquered Part One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStill on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death: Herring Cove Road, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Beautiful Nonsense Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisplaced Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fire by Night: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things to do in Amsterdam: Museums Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jerusalem Diamond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Whistling Season Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Man Jeeves Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Disaster Fiction For You
The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Even If Everything Ends Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heavy Weather Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Earth Abides Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Luminous Dead: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Termination Shock: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deluge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond the Sea: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rogue Wave Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poseidon Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Restoration Collection: Last Light, Night Light, True Light, Dawn's Light Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Across the Sand Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seattle Quake 9.2: A Jackie Harlan Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories from Quarantine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Evening Hour: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Elevator Pitch: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Population: One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrue Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wrong End of the Telescope Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Train: The Moving Psychological Novel Everyone Is Talking About Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rise Again Below Zero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Men Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Supernova EMP Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEMP Disaster: The Complete Series: EMP Disaster Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOdds Against Tomorrow: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for Flood Stage -- A Novel
0 ratings0 reviews