Description From a writer and producer of HBO\'s acclaimed apocalyptic drama series The Leftovers, comes a compelling story of young love and old secrets.
He lives with his wife and son in Chicago, and he teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson and Northwestern University..
He is also a writer and producer on HBO\'s acclaimed drama series The Leftovers.
About the Author Patrick Somerville is the author of two novels--This Bright River and The Cradle--and two books of short stories--Trouble and The Universe in Miniature in Miniature.
Could each be exactly what the other needs?A compelling family drama and a surprising love story, This Bright River is the work of a natural storyteller, one whose dark humor and piercing intelligence provide constant, lasting delights.
As Lauren cautiously expands her horizons and Ben tries to unravel his family\'s dark secrets, their paths intersect.
Now she\'s back in the safest place she knows -- the same small Wisconsin town where she and Ben grew up -- hiding from a world that has only brought her heartache.
Lauren Sheehan abandoned her career in medicine after a series of violent events abroad.
There, he finds his family fractured, still reeling from his cousin\'s mysterious death a decade earlier.
Ben Hanson\'s aimless life has bottomed out after a series of bad decisions, but an unexpected offer from his father draws him home to Wisconsin.
Description From a writer and producer of HBO\'s acclaimed apocalyptic drama series The Leftovers, comes a compelling story of young love and old secrets
