The River Is Home

The River Is Home

Award winning Florida novelist Patrick Smithâ€™s first novel, The River Is Home revolves around a Mississippi familyâ€™s struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessions, Skeeterâ€™s kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they liveâ€”with its food supply, steamboats, and floodsâ€”figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, itâ€™s filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion.

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