The River Is Waiting Format:Hardcover New Covers

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Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family

With thrilling original illustrations and amazing special features including lift-the-flaps

But two years of in-depth research and extensive input from world-class practitioners makes clear that the prevailing model is broken

The River Is Waiting Format:Hardcover New CoversCorby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And thats before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his