Peace Like a River

Leif Enger

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780802139252
• eBook ISBN: 9781555845902

A boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller—"a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy. Along with his father and poetically inclined sister, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder.
The Land family's journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and its remarkable conclusion demonstrates how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies—and the most tragic of fates. "A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, and healing," Peace Like a River is "a collage of legends from sources sacred and profane—from the Old Testament to the Old West, from the Gospels to police dramas" (Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor).

Table of contents

• Praise for Peace Like a River
• Peace Like a River
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition
• Clay
• His Separate Shadow
• Beauteous Are My Cakes Indeed
• Your Toughened Heart
• Peeking at Eternity
• When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll
• Late in the Night When the Fires Are Out
• A Boy on a Horse
• By the Grace of Lurvy
• The Substance of Things Hoped For
• The Last Thing He Would Do
• At War with This Whole World
• Something Warm
• The Skin Bag
• Under the Gibbon Moon
• The Throbbing Heart of News
• The Little Man’s Country
• Winning Her Hand
• Boy Ready
• The Ledger of Our Decisions
• The Red Farm
• Be Jubilant, My Feet
• The Curious Music That I Hear
• Acknowledgments
• A Grove Press Reading Guide
• Back Cover