The Same River Twice

From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer , Same River Twice is the second volume from an American literary star. “If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an accomplished and compelling writer” ( Chicago Tribune ). At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north—into a serie