Length3h 17m
About this audiobook
Dewey Pike is broke, out of a job, and emphatically a dog person when a lawyer in Victoria informs him that a woman he never met has left him 2.31 acres on the Navidad River.
What he inherits is a collapsing cottage, a red barn with a room above it, five hundred dollars a month, a covenant written in 1937 that nobody will explain, and twenty-five of the fattest cats anyone has ever seen.
Feed them at six. Both sixes.
The estates upriver are worth fifteen million apiece and their owners will not look at his animals. Across the water, a community that has been there since the 1890s keeps a ledger of the river’s behavior going back ninety years. Somewhere in the trees lives a person who knows the bend as it was before the county existed, and who owns a boat.
And in the ledgers of a dead caretaker, the same orange tom has weighed twenty-six pounds since 1983.
A Southern Gothic novel about land, inheritance, memory, and the terrible weight of what gets carried.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART ONE: THE INHERITANCE
2Chapter One: A Legal Description
3Chapter Two: Two and a Third Acres
4Chapter Three: The Terms
5Chapter Four: A Temporary Arrangement
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6Chapter Five: Quincy Mills
7Chapter Six: Agnes
8Chapter Seven: Bellwether Crossing
9Chapter Eight: The Peacock, the Neighbor, and the Weight
10Chapter Nine: The Slack
11Chapter Ten: The Audit
12Chapter Eleven: The Fourteenth of March
13Chapter Twelve: What They Carry
14Chapter Thirteen: The Ferryman
15Chapter Fourteen: The Crossing
16Chapter Fifteen: The Landing
17Chapter Sixteen: High Water
18Chapter Seventeen: The Covenant
19Chapter Eighteen: Certified Mail
20Chapter Nineteen: What the Colony Said
21Chapter Twenty: Thirty-Four Pounds
22Chapter Twenty-One: Pearland
23Chapter Twenty-Two: The Hearing
24Chapter Twenty-Three: The Second of the Month
25Chapter Twenty-Four: The Tally
26Chapter Twenty-Five: The Register
27Chapter Twenty-Six: Both Sixes
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