Once upon a river

By Bonnie Jo Campbell

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Death, Fiction, general, River life, Teenage girls, Survival, Voyages and travels, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Nineteen seventies, Michigan, fiction, Fathers, Mothers and daughters

Description: After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman travelling alone, and she must be strong to survive.