Summer River

The fictional Summer River flows through the remote southeast corner of Summer County in Northern California. In addition to an illegal commune assembled on a mining claim on the river the region is home to an aging cattle rancher an aspiring wine grape grower a marijuana grower and an elder of the New Life Assembly with a spirited teenaged daughter. Still suffering the pain and anger of a broken marriage Karen Mitchell moves with her five-year-old daughter into a friends cabin on the south bank of the river. Rick Kantola is a wonderful writer. Great descriptive powers pleasing line and paragraph rhythms and a wonderful ear for dialogue. Todd Walton author Inside Moves and Ruby and Spear. ?a gifted writer with a strong moral angle a capacity for creating memorable characters and a deep and lovely sense of landscape. Tim Farrington author The California Book of the Dead