When Israel Finch and Tommy Basca, the town bullies, break into the
home of school caretaker Jeremiah Land, wielding a baseball bat and
looking for trouble, they find more of it than even they expected.
For seventeen-year-old Davey is sitting up in bed waiting for them
with a Winchester rifle. His younger brother Reuben has seen their
father perform miracles, but Jeremiah now seems as powerless to
prevent Davey from being arrested for manslaughter, as he has
always been to ease Reuben's daily spungy struggle to breathe. Nor
does brave and brilliant nine-year-old Swede, obsessed as she is
with the legends of the wild west, have the strength to spring
Davey from jail. Yet Davey does manage to break out. He steals a
horse, and disappears. His family feels his absence so sorely, the
three of them just pile into their old Plymouth, towing a brand new
1963 Airstream trailer, and set out on a quest to find him. And
they follow the outlaw west, right into the cold, wild and empty
Dakota Badlands. Set in the 1960s on the edge of the Great Plains,
PEACE LIKE A RIVER is that rare thing, a contemporary novel with an
epic dimension. Told in the touching voice of an asthmatic
eleven-year-old boy, it revels in the legends of the West,
resonates with a soul-expanding sense of place, and vibrates with
the possibility of magic in the everyday world. Above all, it shows
how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of
enemies, the most tragic of fates.
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