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Author Thon, Melanie Rae.

Title The Voice of the River : a Novel.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
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Contents List of Names; Prelude; Love Song for Tulanie Rey; Part One; 1. Saviors; 2. The Red Fox; 3. Rika, Marika: Love Song for Griffin; 4. Morning Twilight; Part Two; 5. Silent Snow Singing Sparrow; 6. River's Edge; 7. Niña, Pérdida: Love Song for Iris; 8. A Song Unbroken; 9. Love Song for the Unsaved Father; 10. In This Light; 11. Love Song for the Mother of No Children; Part Three; 12. Lost Children; 13. Deer Song for Juliana and Roxie; 14. Retreating Light; 15. Survivors; 16. Unforgiven: Lullaby for Lela; Part Four; 17. The Companionship of Stone; 18. Birdsong Under Water.
19. Early Darkness20. The Miracle: Lullaby for Lost Children; Acknowledgments.
Summary Missing: seventeen-year-old Kai Dionne and his dog Talia. The search for these two spans a single day, morning twilight to late evening, from the time Kai leaps in a half-frozen river to save the dog to the hour he and Talia are recovered. Each person who comes to the river brings his or her secret needs and desires; each has known loss, and all are survivors: a homeless boy tries to find himself, his lost twin, his double; a childless mother grieves for her son and daughter; a man who shot his father recalls a tender, intimate night & ldquo;when the father was kind, an.
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Subject Life -- Fiction.
Life.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Boys -- Fiction.
Boys.
Dogs -- Fiction.
Dogs -- Fiction.
Bereavement -- Fiction.
Bereavement.
Families -- Fiction.
Families.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Boys.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Other Form: Print version: Thon, Melanie Rae. Voice of the River : A Novel. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9781573661621
ISBN 9781573668262 (electronic book)
1573668265 (electronic book)
9781573661621 (paperback alkaline paper)