The River We Remember This was a wonderful book. It is a mystery, it begins with the discovery of a dead body and centers on the Sheriff who investigates the death, but that is really just the framework upon which Krueger hangs his tale of memories, guilt, resilience, and home. The setting is Jewel, Minnesota--a farming community on the banks of the Alabaster River--in 1958.
"On quiet nights when the moon is full or nearly so and the surface of the Alabaster is mirror-still and glows pure white in the dark bottomland, to stand on a hillside and look down at this river is to fall in love."
What really set this novel apart for me what the characters. The point-of-view is a third person omniscient narrator and we see the events through the eyes (and thoughts) of numerous people. All of them are complex, well-drawn characters and Krueger takes us deep into their lives with small telling details.
This book reminded me of Gilead and Virgil Wander, not because the stories are at all similar, but because the tone is. I will definitely seek out more novels by this Minnesota author.
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