Peace Like a River

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Peace Like a River

by Leif Enger
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To the list of great American child narrators that includes Huck Finn and Scout Finch, let us now add Reuben "Rube" Land, the asthmatic 11-year-old boy at the center of Leif Enger's remarkable first novel, Peace Like a River. Rube recalls the events of his childhood, in small-town Minnesota circa 1962, in a voice that perfectly captures the poetic, verbal stoicism of the northern Great Plains. "Here's what I saw," Rube warns his readers. "Here's how it went. Make of it what you will." And Rube sees plenty.
In the winter of his 11th year, two schoolyard bullies break into the Lands' house, and Rube's big brother Davy guns them down with a Winchester. Shortly after his arrest, Davy breaks out of jail and goes on the lam. Swede is Rube's younger sister, a precocious writer who crafts rhymed epics of romantic Western outlawry. Shortly after Davy's escape, Rube, Swede, and their father, a widowed school custodian, hit the road too, swerving this way and that across... see complete book description

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  • Claire

    claire says

    i fiest read it in 7th grade ILA

    posted Thursday, May 15 2008

  • Tim T

    tim t says

    New book by Enger due out in April!

    posted Thursday, March 27 2008

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  • Don G

    don g says

    A phenomenal novel! One of my favorites. I can't wait to read this again. I will be looking for the second novel by this skilled author.

    posted Monday, November 5 2007

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  • catwater

    catwater says

    I absolutely loved this book, and recommended it to some of my students who also loved it.

    posted Thursday, September 6 2007

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