Title: Once upon a river
Description: After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman travelling alone, and she must be strong to survive.
Subjects: Voyages and travels, Death, Teenage girls, Fathers, Survival, River life, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Michigan, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters, Nineteen seventies, Bildungsromans