Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Carson Zommer's magical illustrations will draw

Zommer's magical illustrations will draw the reader into the captivating world of birds

where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and blacktop

Trained by Dr

I won't be a fish anymore

"--Paige Clark

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Carson Zommer's magical illustrations will drawA "reminder of why we read fiction to begin with" (San Francisco Chronicle), Peace Like a River is Leif Enger's extraordinary debut novel a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world with over one million copies sold Raised on tales of cowboys and pirates, eleven year old Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us, and that it's up to us to "make of it what we