Surviving Sam

"Pagan's narration is shockingly authentic in its harrowing sadness, but River's artistry keeps her protagonist's muddy despair sympathetic without bogging the reader down in Pagan's dilemma....Eschewing any convenient cathartic conclusions, this novel takes a harder road, focusing instead on the difficult incrementality of recovery and on the bitter truth behind bereavement--that letting go is a further loss but it can be the only way to survive."Rivers, Karen is the author of 'Surviving Sam', published 2002 under ISBN 9781551925066 and ISBN 1551925060.