When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything. Robert's adventures in the brooding swamplands from hard labour to imprisonment to thwarted love are full of courage, danger and heartbreak. This is story of how a small, hurt boy becomes a tough young man. Set against one of the great American landscapes, 'Southern Cross the Dog' is a mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel.