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Go as a River di Shelley Read
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Go as a River (edizione 2023)

di Shelley Read (Autore)

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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 survival??and hope??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."??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."??Real Simple

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado??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 homeland??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, home??where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a river??gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when… (altro)

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Titolo:Go as a River
Autori:Shelley Read (Autore)
Info:Spiegel & Grau LLC (2023), 320 pages
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“I’ve come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary, like the deep and mysterious world beneath the surface of the sea” (6).

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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  lizallenknapp | Apr 20, 2024 |
Victoria lives in a small introspective town in Colorado - one that will have been covered by a new reservoir by the end of the book. Hers is a family of men, the women in her life having died in tragic circumstances when she was only 12. They're either hardworking and grim (father), brutal (brother) or bitter and disabled (uncle). She is their housekeeper. One day, she meets an itinerant young man, a Native American, despised and reviled by the local community: racism is rampant . Falling in love with him changes the trajectory of her life, and is the story which makes up this book. In this account, we have the wild and rugged forest landscape which surrounds her town vividly brought to life, as well as the emotional life of Read's characters. This is an immersive tale of love, loss and resilience. As a debut novel, it's a triumph. ( )
  Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |
I really enjoyed this book. Takes place in Colorado. ( )
  Ferg.ma | Apr 13, 2024 |
Young love, destruction of a town, Indian bigotry . 1948 to 1971 ( )
  Rosemary1973 | Mar 10, 2024 |
Go As A River by Shelley Read is an amazing read. I loved the story of Victoria "Torie" Nash set in the town of Iola, Colorado from the 1940's to the 1970's. After her mothers death, Torie had to do all the "female" work and also help her father, brother, and uncle take care of their peach farm. She meets and falls deeply in love with Native American, Wilson Moon, but has to keep her relationship a secret due to his heritage. Then a tragic event occurs which sends her in a tailspin and how she copes kept me reading and enjoying the happenings, the mountain and forest settings, and the altering drama in the life of Torie! Well worth a readers time! ( )
  rbooth43 | Mar 7, 2024 |
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Fiction. Literature. 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 survival??and hope??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."??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."??Real Simple

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado??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 homeland??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, home??where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a river??gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when

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