First published 2022
I need to clarify that based on the source provided, "River's Dream" is actually a photography monograph by Curran Hatleberg, not a work of fiction by Natasha Trethewey. The source describes a collection of sixty-five photographs documenting American life during summer's peak intensity. Hatleberg travels across the country, working with locals to document their stories through images of swamps, groves, front yards, and junkyards. The photographs capture moments where extreme heat and humidity create an almost dreamlike quality to everyday scenes. Trethewey contributed commissioned text to accompany Hatleberg's visual work. The book presents memory as cyclical, where past experiences resurface repeatedly like dreams. Through formal repetition and visual echoes, ordinary American landscapes and communities take on deeper symbolic meaning. This represents Hatleberg's second major publication following his earlier work "Lost Coast."
Genres: art, 21st-century, photography
Vibes: atmospheric, contemplative, dreamlike, intimate
Tropes: cyclical-memory, visual-storytelling
Setting: America, Swamps, Groves, Front Yards, Junkyards
Period: Summer
152 pages · Hardcover · TBW Books