e~With all the fixings of a Johnny Cash song e" love, loss, redemption e" Campbell captures these Michiganders and their earthy, brutal paradise in a tale rich with insighte(tm) Elle e~An excellent American parable about the consequences of our favorite ideal, freedom.e e" Jane Smiley, The New York Times Irresistiblee As her odyseey unfolds, through encounters with the men she meets along the waye"brawlers, boatmen, drug dealers, trapperse"she tries to sort out what it means to have the power to end a human life when youe(tm)ve hardly begun your own.ee" The New Yorker e~ e the self-reliant teenage heroine of Once Upon a River made the book a beguiling and addictive read e reminiscent of Winter Bonee(tm)s Ree Dolly or The Hunger Gamese(tm) Katnis Everdeen e fascinating e I found myself drawn to the pace of Campbelle(tm)s narrative as well as the haunting descriptions of the Stark River.e(tm) Stylist e~Vivid and mesmerizingea gripping storye(tm) Entertainment Weekly e~Margoe(tm)s earthy education and the profound complexities of her timeless dilemmas are exquisitely rendered and mesmerizingly suspenseful. A glorious novel destined to entrance and provokee(tm) Starred review, Booklist e~Campbelle(tm)s precise eye for detail makes her descriptions of Margoe(tm)s travels utterly convincing, showing her readers that the loves of humans are as closely intertwined with the natural world as the emotions of love and hatee(tm) We Love this Book.