Peace Like a River

Peace like a river / by Leif Enger ; read by Edward Holland.-- Newport Beach : Books on Tape, p2001.
11 sound discs (12 hr., 31 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged, library edition
Compact discs
ISBN: 0736685294

1. Bildungsromans. 2. Christian fiction. 3. Domestic fiction. 4. Faith – Fiction. 5. Fugitives from justice – Fiction. 6. Minnesota – Fiction. 7. Miracles—Fiction. 8. North Dakota – Fiction.

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The night before the jury is about to render a verdict on his case Davey Land breaks out of jail and escapes. He shot two intruders who broke in and threatened his family, but when it comes out in the trial that he has provoked them, things look bad for Davey. His father Jeremiah, his asthmatic younger brother Reuben and his sister Swede, a nine-year-old author of heroic cowboy verse, take out on what they hope is his trail into the Badlands of the Dakotas.

Told by eleven-year-old Reuben, their journey and its cause and aftermath, becomes a determined struggle between faith and prayer and human selfishness, between comfort and privation, between deception and truth, and between images of hellish landscape and heavenly visions. It is also a tale abounding in miracles.