No River traces the journeys of two girls in the crux of sudden violence; the journey takes one to the dark forest of the underworld, the other through the edges of 1960's suburbia. Through a lens tempered by both Dante and IHOP, the book explores what it is to love and to be loved. But No River is, above all, a gripping, and sometimes darkly comic, story, its narrative powered by the most human of desires: the wish to avoid loss; the wish to save...