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A NEW RIVER

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A NEW RIVER

Von: Christopher Ray
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In the spring of 1888, on a bend of the Brazos River where Gus Calloway has spent twenty-six years of his life, the rain begins.By the third day Gus can feel the country turning under his feet. By the seventh, the Pruitt family from the next ranch over has come up the trace with the children who survived, and Edna Pruitt sleeps with her boys on a pallet by the back-room bed. By the fourteenth, an old neighbor who has not been wrong about weather in forty years is sitting on Gus's porch with a barometer and a dog, telling him that what is coming is bigger than the floods of '76 and bigger than '82.By the twentieth day, a hand Gus has worked beside for twelve years is dead in the river. The rope held for what felt like a long count. Then the rope gave.By the twenty-first, the rain stops. And the country Gus has known all his life is no longer the country he is standing in. The Brazos has cut a new channel through the land — a channel where there had been no channel a month before, a channel that will run between his corral and his upper pasture for a hundred years.The flood ends. The place is not what it was. The work begins again.The New River is a literary western about a long marriage asked to stand longer than it has already stood, about an eighteen-year-old son deciding at the end of the rain what kind of man he will become, and about an older cow at the front of a herd that knows where to go when the men do not. It is a quiet, slow-burning, devastating novel of small courages and the country that earns them — a country that takes what it takes and leaves what it leaves.For readers of Kent Haruf's Plainsong, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, Paulette Jiles's News of the World, and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses.Christopher Ray is the author of the Eli Creed western trilogy, the Walker Davis canon, Faint Under Fire, Chasing Sunset and more.©2026 Christopher Ray (P)2026 Christopher Ray
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