Three Rivers

By: Sarah Stusek

Narrated by: Sarah Stusek

This isn’t happening. It’s only a nightmare, only a stupid dream. Just wake up, Stella!

But it isn’t a dream. Two strangers take Stella from her bedroom in the middle of the night and haul her off to Three Rivers, a wilderness therapy program for troubled teens.

At the program, Stella puts up as much resistance to participating as she can. She’s not an “at-risk youth”. She’s not a felon or a druggie or an arsonist like the rest of the kids in her group. She’s a normal teenager who happens to star on a hit TV show. But slowly, despite herself, she starts to open up, make friends, and confront why she was really sent there.

©2023 Sarah Stusek (P)2023 Sarah Stusek

Well done, good depiction

As a fellow graduate of one of these programs, it was nice to see a book written about the experience. I hope that more kids from these programs will write about their experiences as the years go on, good work. Good read for anyone interested in this model of therapy, or who had no idea these programs existed

Love this story

I liked the story line and it kept me wanting to listen. I love when it’s narrated by the author

Cool Senario

The story line is very compelling, well thought through...like story board. Well written, the descriptions put you in the setting ...you can see the movie play before you scene to scene.

It's so gratifying to see the main character stubbornly resisting, then incrementally learning, beginning to see herself, eventually allow herself to become real not just who she's expected to be.