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I Review Patrick Somerville’s “This Bright River”

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Somerville’s The Cradle (2009) was a fine first novel telling two touching stories of familial love. But This Bright River is stylistically superior to and more ambitious in its portrayal of family love, pain and redemption.

Click the image below to read my review of Somerville’s This Bright River in the July 1, 2012, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

You can buy This Bright River at Barnes and Noble.

Written by Joe Peschel

July 1st, 2012 at 11:07 am