‘Drowning House’ Plunges Readers Into A Dark, Victorian Galveston
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Galveston Island is famous for many things: miles of beaches, its many festivals and Victorian architecture – and its sea wall – that was built after the hurricane of 1900. That was the deadliest hurricane in US history – and it rewrote the history of Galveston.
Texas author Elizabeth Black has set that famous hurricane at the center of a mystery in her first novel, “The Drowning House.” Just as Galveston’s modern history is built on the foundation of the great hurricane, so is the narrative, set moodily in the city’s historic district.
Elizabeth Black joined KUT’s Emily Donahue to talk about her first novel.
