River of Heaven
A Novel
“You have to know the rest of my story, the
part I can’t yet bring myself to say. A story
of a boy I knew a long time ago and a
brother I loved and then lost.”
Past and present collide in Lee Martin’s highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn.
On an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town.
River of…
$6.99
April 15, 2008
Lee Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, the novel Quakertown, the story collection The Least You Need to Know, and the memoirs From Our House and Turning Bones. He has won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, the Glenna Luschei Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Martin lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.
