Title: Last night in Twisted River
Description: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.
Subjects: Lumber camps, Fiction, Fathers and sons, Fugitives from justice, Rural Police, Accident victims
Places: New Hampshire, New England