βRipe with surprising twists and heart-breakingly real charactersΒ .Β .Β . a remarkable and complex look at race and forgiveness in small-town America.β βMichelle Richmond, New York Timesβbestselling author
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife Betsy, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter Shelly the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over the loss of his life-long love and plagued by his role in a brutal, long-ago crime, he wants only to make amends for his past mistakes.
Then one fall day, a train derails in Two Rivers, and amid the wreckage Harper finds an unexpected chance for atonement. One of the survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched eyes and skin the color of blackberries, needs a place to stay. Though filled with misgivings, Harper offers to take Maggie in. But it isnβt long before he begins to suspect that Maggieβs appearance in Two Rivers is not the simple case of happenstance it first appeared to be.
βA stark, haunting story of redemption and salvationΒ .Β .Β . the story of a man who learns the true meaning of family.β βGarth Stein, New York Timesβbestselling author
βA dark and lovely elegy, filled with heartbreak that turns itself into hope and forgiveness. I felt so moved by this luminous novel.β βLuanne Rice, New York Timesβbestselling author
βGreenwood is a writer of subtle strength, evoking small-town life beautifully while spreading out the map of Harperβs life, finding light in the darkest of stories.β βPublishers Weekly