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It had been 6 days since the declaration of the line, a geographical boundary drawn ninety miles north of the coastline. The lightning whips and the thunder bellows and the rain attacks in the waterstained pages of michael farris smith s rivers, a hurricaneforce debut novel that will soak you with its beautiful sadness and blow you away with its prescience about the weatherwild world that awaits us. Rivers of water now exist where there were once roads and homes. Oct 18, 20 in his debut novel, rivers, michael farris smith answers that question with confidence, writing about the effects of global warming while also offering a story that is unmistakably his own. For fans of cormac mccarthy and annie proulx, a wonderfully cinematic story the washington post set in the postkatrina south after violent storms have decimated the region. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading rivers. Like those in his 20 novel, rivers, the characters in smiths latest struggle to put the past behind thembut this time, the storms that have torn their lives apart are mostly of their own. When he does get his novels written, michael farris smiths goal is to take his readers on an emotional journey. Michael farris smith is the author of the fighter, desperation road, rivers, and the hands of strangers.
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