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The River Is Waiting
A Literary Fiction Novel by Wally Lamb
Subgenres:
- Prison Fiction,
- Family Drama,
- Redemption Story
This book is for you if you're into...
- Prison stories where unlikely friendships change everything
- Messy family drama rooted in addiction and forgiveness
- Narratives about seeking redemption after devastating mistakes
From Little Stack
Get the tissues ready for this Wally Lamb novel with a heartwrenching plot twist. Corby loves fathering his twin toddlers. But after losing his job, he spirals into addiction, eventually causing the tragic loss of one of the children. His family is shattered, and he’s sent to prison in the aftermath.
Prison is a dark place for Corby in his overwhelming grief, guilt, and despair. But eventually he comes to find moments of kindness, along with a chance to use some of his fathering skills as a role model for a teen in need.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart.
Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model.
Buoyed by them and by his mother's enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
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