Peace Like a River

Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller Peace Like a River is now available in paperback. In lyrical, openhearted prose (Michael Glitz, The New York Post), Enger tells the story of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles. Leif Enger's debut novel, Peace Like A River, was launched to critical acclaim in 2001 and went on to sell over one million copies.

Now a perennial, best-selling American classic, it is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story, in which there is magic... none more potent that Leif Enger's prose (Newsday). Enger brings us eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been charged with murder.

Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, and the most tragic of fates.