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“You should know the others of my story, the
part I can’t yet bring myself to say. A story
of a boy I knew a long time ago and a
brother I loved and then lost.”

Past and present collide in Lee Martin’s highly anticipated novel of a guy, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn.

On an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town.

River of Heaven commences some fifty years later and centers on the storyplot of Dewey’s boyhood friend Sam Brady, whose solitary adult life is a lot formed by what really went on in the times before that evening at the tracks. It’s a story he’d do anything to keep from telling, however when his brother, Cal, returns to Mt. Gilead after decades of self-exile, it threatens to come quickly to the top.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Bright Forever, Lee Martin masterfully conveys, with a voice that reaches once distinct and lyrical, one man’s battle to come to terms with the outcome of his life. Powerful and captivating, River of Heaven is about the high cost of living a lie, the chains that bind us to your past, and the obligations we have to those we love.

From the Hardcover edition.