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    Down in the River: A Novel

    By Ryan Blacketter

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    After the death of his sixteen-year-old twin sister, Lyle Rettew moves from the mountains of Idaho to Eugene, Oregon. His religious, well-intentioned older brother has forbidden any mention of her name. But Lyle, fighting to keep his memory of her alive, has quit taking the lithium that numbs his mind, and openly rebels against his mother and brother for the first time. Taking his mourning out of the house, he embarks upon a fraught pilgrimage that is at once heartbreaking and macabre. Dark though it may be, Lyle's fevered journey along the margins of youth culture is ultimately driven by fierce love and a deep, instinctive need to find a liturgy for loss and grief.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSlant
    Release dateJan 6, 2014
    ISBN9781630871048
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    Down in the River: A Novel
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    Ryan Blacketter

    A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Ryan Blacketter has received a literary grant from the Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council and a prison teaching grant from the Idaho Humanities Council. His stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, Image, Crab Orchard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife in Boise, Idaho. Ryan discusses a lesson learned from the prisoners he taught in north Idaho My Rain Taxi Review of Books interview can be purchased on Paypal for five dollars The Thousand Pages: Tips for Transitioning to the Novel

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