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Beneath the heat-choked summers of Atlanta, five teenagers built their own world: cheap beer in a smoke-filled garage, reckless midnight dives into a forbidden quarry, and secrets bound as tightly as kudzu strangling stone.
On the last night of summer in 1982, a Polaroid captured their smiling faces-five friends pressed together in the haze of youth. But the photograph hid something more: a smudge across Harvey's mouth, a gray shadow like silt or water. By morning, Harvey was gone. The quarry kept its silence, and the others swore theirs.
Seventeen years later, Atlanta has changed, but the past has not. Pia returns home with Army scars she can't shake. Rueben runs his father's failing garage, haunted by the sound of dripping water. Heaven drifts through jobs and marriages, her smile as hollow as the bottles she leaves behind. Stan wears the polished mask of a surgeon, but behind it still feels the weight of the quarry's depths.
Where the Kudzu Grows is a Southern gothic tale of memory, guilt, and the relentless grip of the past-where nothing buried ever truly stays hidden.