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There is a River
Charlotte A. Miller
NewSouth Books
978-1-58838-090-8
$25.95 hardcover
6 x 9
301 pages
Published in 2002
Fiction
There Is a River is the final installment in Charlotte Miller’s powerful best-selling trilogy that began with Behold, This Dreamer and continued with Through a Glass, Darkly. The sweeping story follows Janson Sanders, a half-Cherokee, half-white yeoman farmer from the Alabama hill country, and his family through seven decades of Southern life. In book one, Janson’s parents died and he lost the family farm. He went to Georgia to earn a living and there fell in love with Elise, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Janson and Elise ran away, married and returned to Alabama, where they hoped to recover his land. Book two depicts their struggle to make a life in the shadow of the Great Depression. Janson’s dream is pushed aside as he becomes a husband and a father and finds that he will do anything to support his family, even work in the hated cotton mill for the man who took his family’s farm. Now this, the final volume, spans four decades. Janson is called to World War II and Elise must find the strength to support the family when Janson comes home badly wounded. Through it all, the family survives and Janson does eventually regain his land. But, in the farm crises of the 1980s, the land is threatened again and it is up to granddaughter Joanna to save it.
Reviews
“Miller succeeds at creating memorable, larger than life characters facing extraordinary odds, and—as in many Victorian novels—manages to give deserving characters their comeupance as the trilogy ends. . . . Miller should continue to win fans with her latest effort, which is steeped in enough historical detail to provide an appealing glimpse of the ever-changing South.”
BookPage
“Charlotte Miller concludes her trilogy with a bold and complex story that spans three generations.”
Judy Goldman, author of The Slow Way Back
“Charlotte Miller is the essence of modern Southern Literature.”
Edward Swift, author of Splendora
Links
Also by Charlotte Miller:
Behold, This Dreamer, hardcover
Behold, This Dreamer, paperback
Through a Glass, Darkly
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