David Lloyd 
The Moving of the Water 
Stories

Anchored in the community of first-, second-, and third-generation Welsh Americans in Utica, New York, during the 1960s, the stories in David Lloyd’s
The Moving of the Water delve into universal concerns: identity, home, religion, language, culture, belonging, personal and national histories, mortality. Unflinching in their portrayal of the traumas and conflicts of fictional Welsh Americans, these stories also embrace multiple communities and diverse experiences in linked, innovative narratives: soldiers fighting in World War I and in Vietnam, the criminal underworld, the poignant struggles of children and adults caught between old and new worlds. The complexly damaged characters of these surprising and affecting stories seek transformation and revelation, healing and regeneration: a sometimes traumatic ‘moving of the water.’

Table of Content

Acknowledgments



Nos Da



Key



Visitor



Crooked Pie



Eeeeeeee!



Home



Puzzle



Naked



Monkey’s Uncle



Father



Photograph



Transactions



Dreaming of Home



Prodigal Son



Box



Seer



The Moving of the Water



Notes on Welsh Words, Phrases, and Names

About the author

David Lloyd is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College. His previous books include the novel
Over the Line, the short-story collection
Boys: Stories and a Novella, and the poetry collections
Warriors,
The Gospel According to Frank, and
The Everyday Apocalypse. He lives in upstate New York.