After River

<p>Before River everything was perfect. . . .</p><p>Growing up on a Canadian dairy farm less than two miles from the American border fifteen-year-old Natalie Ward knows little of the outside world. But her loving close-knit family is the envy of young and old alike in the nearby town of Atwood. Natalie adores her three brothers--especially Boyer the eldest whom she idolizes. But everything changes one hot July afternoon in 1966 when a long-haired stranger appears at their door--a soft-spoken American a Vietnam War resister who will test the family's morals and beliefs and set in motion catastrophic events that will shatter Natalie's relationships with those she most dearly loves.</p>