Go as a River is a powerful Sunday Times bestselling novel by Shelley Read. Set in 1940s Colorado, it follows Victoria Nash as she navigates loss and discovers her inner strength. This British edition brings the heart-wrenching coming-of-age story to international readers.
When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life?
GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget.
1940s Colorado: Teenage Victoria Nash is the sole surviving woman in a family of troubled men. She spends her days running the household on her family's peach farm. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past. Displaced from his tribal land, he wants to believe one place is just like another. When Victoria and Wil meet on a street corner, their unexpected connection ignites both passion and danger, revelations and secrets. But when tragedy strikes, Victoria is propelled away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope, and her own untapped strength. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.
Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power.
Shelley Read is a fifth generation Coloradoan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope. She was a Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and Honors, and was a founder of the Environment & Sustainability major and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students. GO AS A RIVER, her first novel, is inspired by the landscape she comes from and will be published in over twenty-five territories.
