This Bright River, Patrick Somerville
This Bright River, Patrick Somerville
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This Bright River
A Novel

Author: Patrick Somerville

Narrator: Erin Bennett, Scott Holst, David W. Collins

Unabridged: 14 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2012


Synopsis

From a writer and producer of HBO's acclaimed apocalyptic drama series The Leftovers comes a compelling story of young love and old secrets.

Ben Hanson's aimless life has bottomed out after a series of bad decisions, but an unexpected offer from his father draws him home to Wisconsin. There, he finds his family fractured, still reeling from his cousin's mysterious death a decade earlier.

Lauren Sheehan abandoned her career in medicine after a series of violent events abroad. Now she's back in the safest place she knows -- the same small Wisconsin town where she and Ben grew up -- hiding from a world that has only brought her heartache.

As Lauren cautiously expands her horizons and Ben tries to unravel his family's dark secrets, their paths intersect. Could each be exactly what the other needs?

A compelling family drama and a surprising love story, This Bright River is the work of a natural storyteller, one whose dark humor and piercing intelligence provide constant, lasting delights.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on December 03, 2012

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this review, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) Sometimes I'm very glad that I've never met Chicago author Patrick Somerville, because it lets me do full......more

Goodreads review by Dave on June 06, 2015

I was inclined to love this book, as The Cradle was the best book I read the year it came out, very moving, beautifully and powerfully written. So my expectations were high. . . and they were met. Gorgeous writing, terrific, right on dialogue. I am tempted to say that this is Somerville's In the Lak......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on June 13, 2012

I cannot say enough good things about this book. I think I have 5 pages left. I can say that it's been over a year since I read anything I felt this invlved in, that I honestly dreaded putting the book down because I didn't want to not be reading it. I can say it's been even longer since I felt this......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 24, 2012

4.5+ stars. Holy crap, this was a great book. Something about loveable loser protagonist Ben and prickly also vaguely loser-ish Lauren, not to mention the awe-inspiring, perfect prose, all these things combined to make a ridiculously engaging, delicious book. The only reason this didn’t get a full f......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey on May 11, 2012

I loved the writer's voice - or should I say the voices of his characters? They were incredibly realistic, flawed in a believable and beautiful way.......more