| The Still River rises, creating a reservoir that embraces and silences the human histories lived on its banks. A troubled boy drowns, a family is displaced, and a grieving young woman becomes obsessed with studying its waters. Blending the acute languages of science and emotion, Still River balances water and loss, snow and grief, ice and desire - uncanny comparisons that startle and illuminate. The river rises, and the lives it touches are transformed. It teaches and warns- |