Not The Same River

<p>These stories involve ordinary people confronting extraordinary circumstances. A paperboy's favor for an elderly man on his route faces him with a profound ethical dilemma. A woman cannot decide whether to marry a neighbor who witnessed her husband's tragic fall from the neighbor's roof.</p><p><br></p><p>The central theme these characters face is timeless: Do we shape the future or does it shape us? On a mountaintop encounter a man meets a mysterious stranger and must decide whether to follow the stranger's guidance. A woman hires a male nurse's aide for her mother with dementia forcing the woman to face the complexities and contradictions of his caregiving.</p><p><br></p><p>The stories are set in diverse places from the vibrant streets of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s to the serene landscapes of the Scottish Highlands. Other tales unfold on an Iowa farm struck by a tornado and within a museum teetering on the brink of closure on New York City's Madison Avenue.</p>