The River Wife : A Novel (Paperback)

from TerriBooks

The New Madrid earthquake is the beginning of this novel, and the natural history of the area is an underlying symbol of life at the side of the treacherous, changeable Mississippi River, from sand boils to hardwood forests. A fascinating cast of characters takes this family tale through three ge...

from angela.vaughn

I will be honest, I bought the book for the cover. Then I started reading and found that I knew of the areas Agee wrote about. That made the book all the more intriguing. The story can be a little disturbing, and it covers several generations of one family living on one plot of land. To me, the h...

from RoxieF

I received this an ARC and so looked forward to reading it. I think it started out strong but got bogged down with ghosts. It is a multi-generational story about 4 women and their relationship with Jacques Ducharme. I really liked the story and the characters, just thought the ghost parts unbelie...

from mcghol

Like many other reviewers, I had mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I didn't want to put it down, and was caught up in the character's lives immediately. I was particularly invested in Annie's story and couldn't wait to get back to her whenever the perspective shifted. Later charact...

from PrairieDogg

Jonis Agee is an ambitious novelist who'll take a risk. In "The River Wife" she has written a "Western" (how many women writers have tried THAT?) that explores - through the eyes of five very different women - the settlement of a small parcel of land along the Mississippi River in Missouri from 1...