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1948: Just like a river, your life can go in many different directions
Go as a River
What you need to know before your trail
On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family’s farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a dishevelled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.
So begins the mesmerising story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.
Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever.
Locations
Reset- America/ USA - Colorado
- A: Gunnison River
- B: Gunnison
- C: Willow Creek Park
- D: Blue Mesa Reservoir
Travel Guide
Iola , Colorado
The small town of Iola is fictional but it is firmly located in landscape that is clearly evoked in n this novel. The landscape of the Gunnison area and the Gunnison river is wonderfully descriptive and immersvie. The Blue Mesa Reservoir is a sight to behold. This is a very unique and rather strange place. It’s a character in its own right.
“Imagine a town silent, fogotten, decomposing at the bottton of a lake that was once a river. If this makes you wonder whether the joys and pain of a place wash away as the floodwaters rise and swallow, I can tell you they do not. The landscape of oyur youths created us, and we carry them within us, stories by all they gave and stole in who we become.”
Blue Mesa Reservoir
“A history book versoin of the creation of Blue Mesa Resevoir might portray the portrait as heroic, part of the grand vision otocarry percoius water from the Colorado River’s tributaries to the arid southwest.”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Go as a River
Destination/location: Colorado Author/guide: Shelley Read Departure Time: 1948
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