So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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A story of family, spirituality and the Badlands. Peace Like a River opens with miracles and murder and ends with same. The Land family is full of characters, each of them uniquely endearing, none more so than 9 year-old Swede. Enger's prose is spare and heart-breaking, like the landscape he writes of. One of those books that you repeatedly recommend, because the next best thing to reading it yourself is having others discover it.
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Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Andria, January 2, 2012
A story of family, spirituality and the Badlands. Peace Like a River opens with miracles and murder and ends with same. The Land family is full of characters, each of them uniquely endearing, none more so than 9 year-old Swede. Enger's prose is spare and heart-breaking, like the landscape he writes of. One of those books that you repeatedly recommend, because the next best thing to reading it yourself is having others discover it.