Peace Like a River

When Israel Finch and Tommy Basca break into the home of school caretaker Jeremiah Land, they find more trouble than they bargained for. Seventeen-year-old Davey is waiting for them with a Winchester rifle, and his family sets out on a quest to find him. They follow the outlaw west, right into the cold, wild, and empty Dakota Badlands. Peace Like a River is a contemporary novel with an epic dimension, told in the touching voice of an asthmatic eleven-year-old boy. It explores the legends of the West, resonates with a sense of place, and shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies and the most tragic of fates.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 04 October 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

When Israel Finch and Tommy Basca, the town bullies, break into the home of school caretaker Jeremiah Land, wielding a baseball bat and looking for trouble, they find more than they bargained for. For seventeen-year-old Davey, sitting up in bed waiting for them with a Winchester rifle, things are not looking good. His younger brother Reuben has seen their father perform miracles, but Jeremiah now seems powerless to prevent Davey from being arrested for manslaughter, as he has always been to ease Reuben's daily struggle to breathe. Nor does brave and brilliant nine-year-old Swede, obsessed with the legends of the wild west, have the strength to spring Davey from jail. Yet, Davey manages to break out. He steals a horse and disappears. His family feels his absence so sorely that the three of them pile into their old Plymouth, towing a brand-new 1963 Airstream trailer, and set out on a quest to find him. And they follow the outlaw west, right into the cold, wild, and empty Dakota Badlands.

Set in the 1960s on the edge of the Great Plains, PEACE LIKE A RIVER is that rare thing, a contemporary novel with an epic dimension. Told in the touching voice of an asthmatic eleven-year-old boy, it revels in the legends of the West, resonates with a soul-expanding sense of place, and vibrates with the possibility of magic in the everyday world. Above all, it shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, the most tragic of fates.

Weight: 246g
Dimension: 156 x 149 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472154507