Room to Read: A rising river runs through it, downtown Cedar Rapids, days before the second worst flood is predicted. I sit by the Cedar River with Portia Jordan Wrice's slender volume, anticipating evacuation (Sept. 24, 2016). A couple of anxious days at Stefanie's lovely home and then Tuesday (Sept. 27, 2016), Mother Nature takes a pass. Not a drop of water reaches my apartment building hard by the river. So, I return and celebrate by, what else, reading -- Middle Passage