The Watersnake Road is a tale of two brothers who live and create as they speak. The snake road that connects Bitwheat, Texas to the rest of the state merges with the undercurrent of a river far more treacherous and deep than the Brazos. In a brutal culture where a man survives only through understanding his place in it, Murdoch Shore learns to grieve -- not from any book -- but rather at the hands of his fellow men.