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Rivers, Michael Farris Smith

eng

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fiction

Rivers

Michael Farris Smith

An enthralling, darkly beautiful novel set in Mississippi against the backdrop of a series of devastating storms that pummelled the American South in the years since Hurricane Katrina. Returning from a supply run one day, Cohen picks up two teenage hitchhikers - a boy and an injured Creole girl - and his solitary existence is irrevocably shattered. He is attacked and left for dead, his house ransacked, all his carefully accumulated food and supplies gone - but worse, the last precious mementos he had of his wife and child are now in the hands of strangers. Summoning his last reserves of strength, Cohen sets off to gain justice for all he has lost