She thought about everything that had happened in Black Earth County, all the death associated with the Alabaster, and she understood that there had been no intent in the river, either good or evil. If the river did possess spirit, as the Sioux believed, then that spirit seemed to Charlie so vast that it was probably blind to all the small things that occurred along its course. If the spirit was aware that she dangled her feet in its current, it gave no sign of caring. And Jimmy Quinn and Hannah Klein and Noah Bluestone’s great-great-grandfather and the nameless white woman whose life, legend
...more
