Book description
I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea.
On a cool autumn morning, Torie Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches. As she nears an intersection, a mysterious drifter with grimy thumbsā¦
Why read it?
3 authors picked Go as a River as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love books that make me feel something and place me in their location.
Beautiful writing. Doesn't get better than this.
I am drawn to writers who write effortlessly lyrical proseāa talent Iāve not been given. Detailing a lost time and a lost part of Colorado, Shelley Read elevates the mundanities of lifeāpicking peaches, walking through a forest, fixing dinnerāto poetry.
The story is a simple oneālove, loss, and redemptionā¦rinse and repeat. Like most of our lives. We share a similar love of Colorado, but Read paints the beauty of our state in delicate, sure, and unforgettable strokes. Having been born into a family farm on the Eastern Plains, there is no way I could elevate cockleburs, floods, and tornadoes, wanderingā¦
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German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancĆ©, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Heddaā¦
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