Once upon a river

By Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

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.