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The River Is Home by Patrick D. Smith

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The River Is Home

Author
Patrick D. Smith
Narrator
Jim Seybert
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Publish Date
28 February 2023
Run Time
7 hours 33 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place
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Award-winning Florida novelist Patrick Smith's first novel, The River Is Home, revolves around a Mississippi family's struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live—with its food supply, steamboats, and floods—figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, it's filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion.

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Author
Patrick D. Smith
Narrator
Jim Seybert
Duration
7 hours 33 minutes
Release Date
28 February 2023
ISBN
9798350800364
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Genre
Fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place

Synopsis

Award-winning Florida novelist Patrick Smith's first novel, The River Is Home, revolves around a Mississippi family's struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live—with its food supply, steamboats, and floods—figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, it's filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion.

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