Go as a River: A Novel

Go as a River: A Novel

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UPC: 9781954118232
Brand: Spiegel & Grau
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER* Finalist for Goodreads Choice Award * Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love *Set amid Colorados wild beauty, a heartbreaking comingofage story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survivaland hopefor readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing.Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth, set against the forests and rivers of Colorados high country. Read is a gifted writer, and the book is a literary triumph.Denver PostWith gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors, an illicit love story, and an unforgettable protagonist, Go as a River offers something for everyone.Real SimpleSeventeenyearold Victoria Nash runs the household on her familys peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Coloradothe sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses.Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homelandits ranches, farms, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations.Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, homewhere least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a rivergathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when a river is dammed.

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