Go As A River
Ratings12
Average rating4.2
The Goldsboro Prem1er pick has been getting better recently!
Go As A River is an undeniably bleak novel - a tale of estranged families, racial bigotry, and love cut short. The whole novels eddies and swirls like its namesake river around the themes of loss and belonging. We follow Victoria Nash, the daughter of a peach farmer in Colorado with a difficult brother and a strained relationship with her father as she has her first experience with love. The trip that leads down is heartbreaking, painting a vivid picture of conservative rural biases and judgement and her own attempts to escape from it. A fascinating critique of mid 20th century values in rural America.
This is not a fast paced novel, it flows you along through the life and trials of our MC through some beautiful prose. But that momentum is always there - life is always flowing forwards.
Moving, heartfelt and with a melancholy beauty
Wonderful story beautifully written. I loved how it took place where I personally know or have heard about, like Iola which is at the bottom of the Blue Mesa Reservoir - right down the road from where I live. This one will stay with me.
DNF. I'm sure it's me, and not the book, but I just wasn't up for the sadness and stress. I kept anticipating the bad things that were going to happen. Another reviewer described this as a cry book, and I'm not up for that right now.