THE RIVER WHY
People: “A small national treasure.”
The New York Times: “A whirlwind, madcap, humorous and sensitive novel.”
Western Coast Review of Books: “The best thing to come out of Oregon since Nike running shoes.”
Publisher’s Weekly: “Done in a high-velocity, exuberant style, sprawling in scale, heedless of form, the feeling for and evocation of the imperiled natural world is rhapsodic in its intensity; the writing energetic, literary in a distinctly American way... So amiable is the prevailing tone that the flowing narrative is able to absorb Koranic and Eastern mysticisms, Tao, Sufism, Zen—the religions of oneness and gospel of love—without turning into the kind of maudlin choral chanting that so often disfigures treatments of fusion of self and the world.”
