At once captivating and poetic storytelling, a reflection on personal history, and the coming of age in a time of climate crisis, What the River Was invites us to cross into a world of McIver's creation, a world not wholly our own, but one that looks just enough like ours to keep us wondering: could this be us? In a year that has not happened in ripples or waves but in whitewater, rushing us toward a destination not yet known to us, What the River...