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The Finder of Forgotten Things
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In 1932 itinerant dowser Sullivan Harris flees Kline, West Virginia, after accepting payment to locate water and failing to deliver. His apparent success elsewhere increases rather than solves his problems, as people begin asking him to recover lost possessions and missing persons. Gainey Floyd doubts his claims, while Jeremiah Weber pursues him on behalf of those who believe they have been cheated.
Their paths converge near the Hawks Nest Tunnel, where unemployed men have taken dangerous work drilling through silica-rich rock. Sullivan’s instinct for escape is challenged by evidence that workers are becoming sick and dying while powerful interests minimise the cause. Combining a story of questionable gifts with a documented industrial disaster, the novel examines fraud, responsibility, racialised labour and the possibility that a man skilled at finding what others have lost might recover his own moral purpose.
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