The River Remembers

Marlene Fairweather is eighty-two and has Alzheimer’s. Her son Sam packs up her apartment and takes her to the river cabin where the family spent one week every June when he was a boy. His sister Diane has not spoken to him in two years. The fight was about their mother’s money. At the cabin Marlene sets the table every night for people who are not coming. She can still sing every verse of one hymn. And she keeps searching for an old coffee tin she cannot describe. The book goes back through her life: a girl handed from house to house, a ranch, a boy who rode fences, a long marriage to a man who never said he loved her, night school after fifty, a divorce, and a second husband who said it every day. Then the family finds the tin. What is inside it ends the fight. A novel about a mother, her two grown children, and one last summer. The Prologue and Chapter One are free to read.

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