The Taking

The Taking by J.D. Landis is a novel of love and obsession in a lost landscape. It takes place in the 30s, in the area of Massachusetts that?s about to be lost in the making of the Quabbin Reservoir. A young woman moves in and gets involved in a tangle of relationships with a minister, his wife and a mysterious young man. J.D. Landis will talk about his novel and his first career as an editor for a New York publishing house.