The Hannibal Rivertown Review Podcast - S2E6 (Tom & Huck ... reimagined?)

As we sit down for episode 47, the quadrennial Clemens Conference is taking place in Hannibal. One of the presenters for the conference is Melissa Scholes Young, an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. She is also a Hannibal native (who looks for any good excuse to come home) who wondered what the result would be to reimagine Mark Twain's classic duo of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as women in Hannibal during the Great Flood of 1993. The result was Melissa's first novel, "Flood," first released two years ago and now out in paperback.