Go as a River: A Novel

Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survival—and hope—for readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing  “Shelley Read’s lyrical voice is a force of nature…. Completely unforgettable.” —Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry  “A splendid American Gothic tale of a young woman broken by circumstances who must find a way to forgive before she can love.”—Adriana Trigiani, author of The Good Left Undone  Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both o