Is a River Alive? Sophie Mackintosh ” ―Ben Fountain

” ―Ben Fountain

Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction

is notorious for behaving improperly

Some people like hugs but others don't

This heartwarming and hilarious novel from the authors of The Status of All Things and Your Perfect Life features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned forty—the year that altered all of their lives

Is a River Alive? Sophie Mackintosh ” ―Ben FountainHailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable