Once upon a river
River life
Nineteen seventies
Michigan, fiction
Bildungsromans
Fathers
Fiction, coming of age
Survival
Voyages and travels
Mothers and daughters
Teenage girls
Death
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
Fiction
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.
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