{"product_id":"in-the-river-sweet-isbn-9780385721325","title":"In the River Sweet","description":"National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats her like a young lover. Her grown daughter is a staunch friend. Her steady work and devotion to the church have quietly made her a pillar of the community. Then one long Indiana summer brings some unexpected communiqués—including one she has both craved and feared for thirty years. As long-hidden truths threaten to emerge, for the first time in her marriage Ruth Anne is faced with memories she and Johnny never discuss: of a year spent in Saigon in 1968—and a past she has yet to acknowledge. Probing questions of family and faith, Patricia Henley offers us a tender, far-sighted novel about seeking answers and achieving grace.“Emotionally rich. . . . Nuanced. . . . Voluptuous. . . . A true accomplishment in the craft of fiction.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Absolutely superb. . . . With a poet’s eye for the essential and a novelists’s sweeping vision . . . Patricia Henley iluminates here the wounds and yearnings of us all.” —Andre Dubus III, author of \u003cb\u003eHouse of Sand and Fog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Beautifully rendered. . . . An absorbing story.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Sure to please readers deeply. . . . Henley conjures the bygone Vietnam era with eerie and bittersweet poignancy.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An atmospheric and involving drama of family, belief and moral quandaries.” —\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePatricia Henley’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eHummingbird House,\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 1999 National   Book Award and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction Book Award. Henley has also written two   books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLearning to Die\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBack Roads,\u003c\/i\u003e and four story collections: \u003ci\u003eFriday   Night at Silver Star,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the 1985 Montana Arts Council First Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe   Secret of Cartwheels\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWorship of the Common Heart: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Other Heartbreaks.\u003c\/i\u003e Her stories have been published in such magazines as \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares,   The Missouri Review, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Review,\u003c\/i\u003e and   anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize \u003c\/i\u003eanthology\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e For 27 years she taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University. She lives in Frostburg, Maryland.A Novel","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303127994597,"sku":"NP9780385721325","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385721325.jpg?v=1767729980","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/in-the-river-sweet-isbn-9780385721325","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}