Watershed

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 29 30 1)>Why is one sibling resilient while the other breaks like the branch of an apple tree unable 'to carry the burden of the fruit it bears'? . . . Played out in sweeping gestures Harlan's response to the question is open-ended but richly textured. -<em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jeb and his younger brother Dave are drifting apart.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When they were young it was easy to share secrets pranks and friendship; but during this drought-stricken summer new tensions are breaking into their old friendship. Jeb a sports star and a good student has learned to coexist with their domineering father. But Dave is still the prank-playing rebel unable to compromise with what he sees as a hypocritical society and family. With the summer heating up Dave plans his greatest prank yet-the perfect way to cool down the town. But will Jeb join him one last time? </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now Jeb faces the most difficult decision in his life-whether to join Dave's reckless stunt or to abandon his brother to his anger. Yet he knows that whatever happens both boys must share the consequences.</span></p>