The River Between Us

A Novel of Grief, Friendship, and What Comes After

Two men. One river. A lifetime of grief neither can name.

A retired doctor wakes beside a river he can't remember driving to. His camp is stocked. The fish are always biting. The fire catches on the first match. And he can't remember anything before the water.

Then a younger man stumbles out of the trees — loud, warm, with trembling hands and a laugh that fills the whole valley. He doesn't remember how he got here either.

Night after night, they trade stories by the fire. A tobacco harvest in Kentucky. A wife in red shoes. A daughter who said pasketti. A patient who died on the table and never left the doctor's chest. With each story told, the river gives back a fragment of memory — and the truth of who they are to each other moves closer to the surface.

The River Between Us is a novel about what we carry, who we carry it for, and what happens when we finally set it down.

For readers of A Man Called Ove, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and Gilead.

"I bought this because my daughter recommended it. I finished it in one sitting. I called my fishing buddy afterward and told him I loved him. He said 'what the hell is wrong with you.' I sent him the book." — Early reader review