The Ward family quickly falls in love with River, each finding some essential need filled by his gentle personality, but these bonds drag the family deep into tragedy. She recounts her golden childhood growing up on a busy farm \x93carved out of a narrow mountain valley deep in the Cascade Mountains.\x94 But when a handsome Vietnam War resister named River Jordon ambles up the family's dirt road in 1966 and offers his services as a farm hand, this innocent simplicity begins to curdle.
Natalie Ward is a thrice-married writer forced by the imminent death of her mother to return to the town she left in shame at the age of 16. freshly churned butter\x94 belies the lingering bitterness of family tragedy. In this debut from Canadian Milner, a nostalgia as \x93rich and sweet as.
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