The River Is Home, Paperback

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Award winning Florida novelist Patrick Smith s first novel, The River Is Home revolves around a Mississippi family s struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessions, Skeeter s kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live with its food supply, steamboats, and floods figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, it s filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion.""