River of light

by Brenda Peterson

River of Light is the story of Georgia country people and their struggles to work and keep their land. Though the novel is set in theThirties, it could well be Lloyd Sloan desperately works his once-rich farm, loses it to the bankers, and fights to get himself and his family back to the land. This is the story of Lloyd's valiant struggle against his bad luck, and also the story of Jessie Walsh, a vivacious, though life-hardened migrant woman, whose radiant and healing spirit slowly works on Lloyd and the land and the people in their community.

303 pages, Hardcover

First published March 26, 1999

About the author

Brenda Peterson is the author of over 20 books, including the recently released murder mystery, Stiletto. Her first memoir Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, chosen as a “Best Spiritual Book of 2001,” to three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was chosen by New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year. Her second memoir, a dark comedy of family and faith, is I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth; it was selected by The Christian Science Monitor among the Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books and chosen by independent bookstores as an Indie Next and a Great Read.
Her non-fiction has appeared in numerous national newspapers, journals, and magazines, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Reader’s Digest, Christian Science Monitor, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Utne Reader. Oprah.com featured her Your Life is a Book: How to Craft and Publish Your Memoir. Her new kid’s are Wild Orca and Lobo: A Wolf Family Returns Home.

Reviews

[Dale · Rating 3 out of 5]

what a bunch of sorry state of GA characters; all downtrodden; initially, due to the title, I thought it would get better, but in fact in turned out to be a (literally) “snake handler” [religious] story with a bad ending; how this got published, I’ll never understand but do agree with the “withdrawn” decision by Berea Library; purchased by RLB @ Friends…, read Apr. 09, 1978, 303 pgs.