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  • Fiction
  • 2025
  • First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.

The river is waiting

a novel

Wally Lamb

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Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother's enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?

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Title Statement The river is waiting: a novel / Wally Lamb.
Author Lamb, Wally
Publication New York: Marysue Rucci Books,2025.
Edition First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Extent of Item 466 pages ;
ISBN 9781668006399 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07905110
General Notes "Oprah's book club 2025"--Dust jacket.
Summary Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that's before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother's enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Families--Fiction
Grief--Fiction
Married people--Fiction
Prisoners--Fiction
Prisons--Fiction
Reconciliation--Fiction
By Genre Psychological fiction
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