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profound … compelling … [a book that] packs a surprisingly motivational punch” (GQ)

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The River Knows Your Name: A Novel Fiction_Gift_Guide then her mother lured herFrom the acclaimed author of The Girls in the Stilt House comes a long awaited novel both atmospheric and lyrical, a haunting Southern story about memory, family secrets, and fierce and fragile love. For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcasea record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by