{"product_id":"book-avlt","title":"River of Heaven","description":"“You have to know the rest of my story, the \u003cbr\u003epart I can’t yet bring myself to say. A story \u003cbr\u003eof a boy I knew a long time ago and a \u003cbr\u003ebrother I loved and then lost.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePast and present collide in Lee Martin’s highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiver of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e begins some fifty years later and centers on the story of Dewey’s boyhood friend Sam Brady, whose solitary adult life is much formed by what really went on in the days leading up to that evening at the tracks. It’s a story he’d do anything to keep from telling, but when his brother, Cal, returns to Mt. Gilead after decades of self-exile, it threatens to come to the surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Pulitzer Prize finalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Bright Forever\u003c\/i\u003e, Lee Martin masterfully conveys, with a voice that is at once distinct and lyrical, one man’s struggle to come to terms with the outcome of his life. Powerful and captivating, \u003ci\u003eRiver of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is about the high cost of living a lie, the chains that bind us to our past, and the obligations we have to those we love.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340589408560,"sku":"BDavlt","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/137075-avlt-Square.jpg?v=1734045611","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-avlt","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}