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Go as a River by Shelley Read
4.0

Thanks to Spiegel & Grau for the copy of this ARC!

This is a really tender, beautiful story set in rural Colorado starting in 1948. Victoria works on her family’s peach farm and one day falls in love with Wilson Moon, a Native American who is NOT welcome in the community and actually gets placed in wanted ads around town. This story blends a coming of age story with motherhood, acceptance, racism, land rights, adoption, residential schools, family drama, nature, and friendship. It’s pieced together incredibly well to make it lyrical, beautiful, heartbreaking, and a really special story spanning decades.

Read if you:
- enjoy impactful historical fiction
- are a mother
- want your heart to be both broken and squeezed

While this audio is well done, I definitely recommend physical over audio on this book so that nothing is missed.