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1 online resource (214 pages) |
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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. |
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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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Life -- Fiction.
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Life. |
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Fiction.
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Boys -- Fiction.
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Boys. |
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Dogs -- Fiction.
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Dogs -- Fiction. |
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Bereavement -- Fiction.
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Bereavement. |
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Families -- Fiction.
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Families. |
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Electronic books.
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Boys. |
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Fiction.
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Print version: Thon, Melanie Rae. Voice of the River : A Novel. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9781573661621 |
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9781573668262 (electronic book) |
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1573668265 (electronic book) |
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9781573661621 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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