


Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit.įorty years later, after the death of her husband, Tass returns to Money and fantasy takes flesh when Emmett Till's spirit is finally released from the dank, dark waters of the Tallahatchie River. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families.

Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi-a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation.
