Jeff Sharlet’s “The Undertow” explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart.
It is both inquiry and meditation, an attempt to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has morphed into delusion, social division into distrust, distrust into paranoia, and hatred into fantasies, sometimes realities of violence.
Exploring a geography of grief and uncertainty in the midst of plague and rising fascism, “The Undertow” is a necessary reckoning with our precarious present that brings to light a decade of American failures as well as a vision for American possibility.
