Once Upon a River

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

A finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a rising star in contemporary fiction. Hailed by Booklist as a female Huckleberry Finn, Campbell’s heroine is 16-year-old Margo Crane. Complicit in her father’s death, Margo flees home for the Stark River. And as she follows the current, she learns the ways of the world from the eccentric characters she meets.

©2011 Bonnie Jo Campbell (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

Great novel-- a girl and her river(s)

What a beautiful novel. Bonnie Jo Campbell is clearly one of the important fiction writers of our time, and this is a beautiful book.

Great story, need a non southern narrator!

The book was well written, however the story takes place in Michigan yet all the characters and narrator had heavy southern accents, made it really hard to listen and believe it could actually occur in the Midwest.

Will There Be More?

What did you like best about this story?

It has been a rare book that has presented such a collection of characters so real, so alive and a story line to go with that leaves one wanting for more.
Bonnie Jo is the perfect surprise in a market filled with okay writers. Do hope she has another book coming out soon.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Go with the flow.

The natural strength and fortitude of Women

This was an amazing story about the innate ability, determination and brilliance of a young woman to survive when all was stacked against her. Well written and the narrator was incredible! Brava!

Didn’t care for the excessive killing of animals in the story.

The abrupt ending. Felt like an unfinished story. Too many unanswered questions and dropped characters.