White Town Drowsing

Searching for a sense of his past, Ron Powers is drawn back to his hometown, sleepy Hannibal, MO, on the banks of the Mississippi River. When he returns to the town he left 25 years earlier, Powers finds Hannibal on a cultural collision course between its own modest, traditional past and the modern entrepreneurial schemes of the stylish young mayor. As it prepares for a sesquicentennial celebration for another former resident - Mark Twain - will Hannibal become a them-park parody of its remembered self?WHITE TOWN DROWSING is a warm, personal book about the conflict between our hometown reveries and the reality of modern Main Street.