Why read Go as a River?

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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 thumbs…

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3 authors picked Go as a River as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Karen Lynne Klink

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I love books that make me feel something and place me in their location.

From Karen's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Ruth Talbot

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Beautiful writing. Doesn't get better than this.

From Ruth's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Mary Ellen Johnson

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I am drawn to writers who write effortlessly lyrical prose—a talent I’ve not been given. Detailing a lost time and a lost part of Colorado, Shelley Read elevates the mundanities of life—picking peaches, walking through a forest, fixing dinner—to poetry.

The story is a simple one—love, loss, and redemption…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, wandering…

From Mary Ellen's 3 favorite reads in 2023.