Go as a River

*STUNNING NATURE WRITING?like Where the Crawdads Sing or The Overstory, the novel is immersed in the natural world?nature itself is almost a character.

*LOVE STORY?a poignant story of formative illicit young love and loss, set against the natural world.

*BASED ON A LITTLE-KNOWN FASCINATING HISTORICAL EVENT?in 1966 the town of Iola, Colorado, was drowned to create the Blue Mesa Reservoir and today sits at the bottom of the lake. (Pieces of it are beginning to emerge with drought, so this might be an evolving story.)

*WESTERN FICTION?the author is a fourth-generation Coloradan who spends much time in the wilderness, and the story is based on many of her family's stories and her own experiences.

*MOTHER-SON novel?the novel is also an exploration of motherhood, from the points of view of two mothers, one by blood and one adoptive

*A NOVEL ABOUT HOME?Victoria's home lies under the lake at the opening of the novel, and the novel is an exploration of what home means to us and where we can find it.

*MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EXCITEMENT?foreign rights deals valued at more than US $1.5 million currently finalized in the UK, Germany, Canada, Italy, France, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark with many more to come!