"Where the River Ends" by Charles Martin left me feeling like I was hooked behind the canoe and feeling the wake behind them. Abigail Grace Coleman and Doss Michaels meet, fall in love and face scores of challenges on their 15 year journey of marriage until the end of the river. Story about life, cancer, death and the journey.
"We all live, we all die-there is no get-out-of-jail-free card, but it's the part in between that matters. To love well...that's something else. It's a choosing-something done again and again and again." (Martin p 27)
"The river can be a magical place...No matter how you hurry or how hard and fast you pull the paddle, the river controls the tempo. She stretches every minute and steals back every lost second. Rivers do this naturally. They don't give two cents about the destination, only the journey. It's why they're crooked. Name one straight river and I'll show you a man made canal. People make a big deal about how their watch automatically sets itself to atomic time from a tower somewhere in Colorado, but if we were smart, we'd set our watches to river time. We'd wrinkle less and wouldn't grow old as quickly." (Martin p 220)
(Published by Broadway Books. 2008)
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