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Daniel Wallace's ''The Watermelon King'' follows the journey of Thomas Rider, a tall, 18-year-old country boy with piercing green eyes and a subtle limp, from the only home he has ever known to the town of his birth, Ashland, Ala. Equipped only with a head full of stories and an infamous name, he has come to find answers. He is soon to learn that somewhere in the dry earth of fable lies the seed of truth.Ashland is the kind of town you'd expect to find at the southern foothills of the Appalachians. It's a place where secrets are as rare as strangers. And when either is afoot in the dusty town, word spreads like wildfire. Everything in Ashland revolves around watermelons, or at least it did until something happened 18 years ago that caused the melons to dry up and die. But the memory of the good times, when Ashland was the self-proclaimed Watermelon Capital of the World, still lies dormant in its citizens, who wait, like seeds in dry dirt, for a soft rain that will bring everything back to life. Little do they know that prayers for a shower will soon bring a storm.
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