In a desperate bid to save her family's land, Norah King agrees to marry a man she barely knows. But just days before the wedding, she comes across a badly injured stranger who upends all her plansβand steals her heart along the way.
Where the River Bends
β Scribed by Richard Haddaway
- Book ID
- 110984283
- Publisher
- Dzanc Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 387 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781945814259
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Richard Haddaway's novel is a warm-hearted, realistic, multi-generational story of the Beckwith clan, a Texas oil family dominated by a wealthy patriarch who does his best to hold his children and grandchildren to his narrow views of propriety and restraint. His grandson Stephen watches in grief as his father's life withers under Granddaddy's long shadow. Stephen's own life takes a turn into the same alcoholism and despair that ruined his father. Haddaway's narrative moves through joy and loss, failure and courage. Set near Fort Worth, Texas, the novel takes place from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s.
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