Peace Like a River [Paperback]

One ofTimeMagazine's Top Five Books of the Year.
AChristian Science Montor,Denver Post, andLos Angeles TimesBest Book of the Year.

Once in a great while, a book comes along that has such wonderful characters and marvelous prose, that you read it as much for the pure joy it offers on every page as to find out how it ends. -Denver Post

Leif Enger's best-selling debut is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story in which what could be unbelievable becomes extraordinary (Miami Herald). Enger brings us eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been charged with murder. Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, and the most tragic of fates.

Leif Enger ... is a natural-born storyteller, and his novel moves in a current that can be poetic and slow or as tumultuous as whitewater rapids. This novel has the power to convince that, despite sorrow, human experience is a miracle of ordinary truth and extraordinary love. -Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A rich mixture of adventure, tragedy, and healing ... a journey you simply must not miss. -Christian Science Monitor

What allowsPeace Like a Riverto transcend any limitations of belief and genre is its broad, sagacious humanity ... There is magic here, none more potent than Enger's prose. -Newsday