Publishers Weekly: Little, Brown Swims in Cordalis’s ‘Water’
March 17, 2023
Little, Brown’s Tracy Sherrod took world rights at auction to Amy Bowers Cordalis’s Child of Big Water. Cordalis, a member of the Yurok Tribe in California, was represented by Mark Tauber at the Watermark Agency. The publisher said the book—subtitled Indigenous Resistance, Resilience and Stewardship, How a Tribe and a Family Fought to Win the World’s Biggest River Restoration Project—tells the story, through the voices of Cordalis’s family, of “a century of her tribe’s subjugation and the battle they took upon themselves to... rescue their heritage.” Members of the tribe have been fighting government agencies for decades over the damming of irrigation waters, and last year Congress ordered that a dam be removed from the Klamath River. Child of Big Water is slated for December 2024.
