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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2023
Victoria Nash has grown up on a peach farm in the foothills of the Elk Mountains in Colorado – she lost her mother at the age of just 12 and since that moment settled into the role of caring for the men she lives with – her good for nothing brother Seth, her father and her disabled Uncle.
It is 1948 when 17 year old Victoria meets the boy who will change the life forever. When Wilson Moon asks her for directions, she feels an instant connection to him but as a native Indian, he is disliked and distrusted by the town folk and especially her brother Seth. Despite this they start a romance that will have devastating consequences.
Go As A River is an epic drama that follows Victoria and the tough and brave decisions she has to make as she makes her own way through life. It is a heart-breaking yet positive read. Motherhood is an overriding theme of the book – Victoria describes how she misses her mother, especially when she herself starts to become a woman. She describes how she wishes she had someone she could discuss her feelings about Wil to (but acknowledges to herself that she probably didn’t have that sort of relationship with her mother).
The book follows Victoria until 1971 with another theme being war. She describes how her Uncle arrived home from the 2nd World War having lost his legs and as the Vietnam war begins in the 1960s, the horror of conscription is addressed. I hadn’t realised that boys were called up depending on what day their birthday fell on!
I mentioned on Twitter last week how I’d given up on a book which I was struggling with and Go As A River was the next book I picked up. It made me realise that life is too short to read a book I’m not enjoying, especially when there are books like this to discover. I’m sure this will be one of my books of 2023 and I hope it is a huge success because it is just wonderful (and has left me with a serious craving for peaches!)
It is 1948 when 17 year old Victoria meets the boy who will change the life forever. When Wilson Moon asks her for directions, she feels an instant connection to him but as a native Indian, he is disliked and distrusted by the town folk and especially her brother Seth. Despite this they start a romance that will have devastating consequences.
Go As A River is an epic drama that follows Victoria and the tough and brave decisions she has to make as she makes her own way through life. It is a heart-breaking yet positive read. Motherhood is an overriding theme of the book – Victoria describes how she misses her mother, especially when she herself starts to become a woman. She describes how she wishes she had someone she could discuss her feelings about Wil to (but acknowledges to herself that she probably didn’t have that sort of relationship with her mother).
The book follows Victoria until 1971 with another theme being war. She describes how her Uncle arrived home from the 2nd World War having lost his legs and as the Vietnam war begins in the 1960s, the horror of conscription is addressed. I hadn’t realised that boys were called up depending on what day their birthday fell on!
I mentioned on Twitter last week how I’d given up on a book which I was struggling with and Go As A River was the next book I picked up. It made me realise that life is too short to read a book I’m not enjoying, especially when there are books like this to discover. I’m sure this will be one of my books of 2023 and I hope it is a huge success because it is just wonderful (and has left me with a serious craving for peaches!)
