by
Alison Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Winner of the Jeanne Leiby Prize
Alison Townsend shapes the memories within this book like the meditative and meandering rivers that inspired them. The Persistence of Rivers evokes the naturalism of Thoreau and Dillard, yet Townsend’s prose remains masterfully singular in its subject, lyricism,...