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HTML: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Set amid Colorado's wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age 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 survivalâ??and hopeâ??for 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 Colorado's high country. Read is a gifted writer, and the book is a literary triumph."â??Denver Post "With gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors, an illicit love story, and an unforgettable protagonist, Go as a River offers something for everyone."â??Real Simple Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Coloradoâ??the 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 homelandâ??its 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, homeâ??where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a riverâ??gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when No library descriptions found. |
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The topography of a life tells a story, and the storied life of Victoria Nash, daughter of a Colorado peach farmer in the mid-twentieth century, is one of deep-rooted resilience, one that engrossed me from the beginning, even though it was evident that we’d be wading through the muck and mire of eventual grief: “I learned…that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a private poem” (9). One of my favorite things about this book is that it does feel like one long poem—not so much an epic but more a lamentable dirge. Still, the prose is beautifully poetic, full of budding life nourished in rich, earthy soil but also full of painful pruning and unexpected uprooting.
Besides the lovely writing, this book might be one you want to add to your TBR if any of this is appeals to your reading palette:
• A small town full of busybodies and loyalty to their own (except for the town’s outcast).
• Hard themes of racism and grief and abandonment handle with care.
• First love in all its beautiful, terrible moments.
• A story about our land, our roots: our home.
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