The Preacher, the Fisherman, and the Cahaba – The Audio Experience
After running through the glass of my second-story window, in my sleep no less, I can’t put it off any longer – it’s been twenty-six years, but I have to remember what keeps me up nights.
You’re listening to the Preacher, the Fisherman and the Cahaba, a dramatic, audio-based interpretation of the novel by the same title, anticipated for release in October of 2020.
The headwaters of the Cahaba River are neither wide nor fierce. So, it was almost unimaginable to think that the police had found my friend there, lifeless below their waters.
I was intent on finding answers, and at that time, like now, I was haunted by a progressive parasomnia that blurred the edges between reality and dreams, the symbolic and the supernatural. I leaned on my eccentric Uncle John and a cast of characters as authentic as the Cahaba itself to make sense of it all.
But to learn the truth, I was gonna have to grapple with the long and varied history that’s hidden deep within the red clay of that old land – the persistent, distinctively southern legacy that followed the Scot-Irish into the foothills of Appalachia. But the truth is messy. And as well as I knew that old creek, I wasn’t wandering alone.