In the sweeping tale of love and secrets, TWO RIVERS by T. Greenwood is a novel that has been garnishing acclaim from readers and critics alike. The story unfolds in the small town of Two Rivers, where a tragic train accident brings the community together. Harper Montgomery, the main character of the novel, is a man weighted down by the guilt of having participated in a murder, and if that's not enough, he's also devastated by the death of his only true love in life. When he arrives on scene at the accident, he meets Maggie, a young pregnant woman from the south that begs him to take her in and participate in faking her death. Struggling to raise his daughter alone, it seems like more than a man can handle. But, Montgomery is on a quest for redemption and is willing to pay any price to achieve it.
I have to admit I was thrilled to nab a copy of this book. Greenwood's prose is poetic and sensual, but at times I felt the book was nostalgic and I didn't always believe the motivation of characters. However, Greenwood is a talented writer with the ability to capture the human condition.
Set in the fictional Two Rivers, Vermont, Greenwood
introduces Harper Montgomery, a man who is living a life
overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his
wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his
world to working at the local railroad and raising his
daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked
with sorrow over the loss of his lifelong love and plagued
by his role in the brutal, long ago crime, he wants only to
make amends for his past mistakes.
Then one fall day, a
train derails in Two Rivers, and amid the wreckage Harper
finds an unexpected chance at atonement. One of the
survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched
eyes and skin the color of blackberries, needs a place to
stay. Though filled with misgivings, Harper offers to take
Maggie in, but it isn't long before he begins to suspect
that Maggie's appearance in Two Rivers is not the simple
case of happenstance it first appeared to be.
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