The River Wife

The River Wife, Jonis Agee, 2007, Random House. Genre: Fiction. 393 pages. Finished 5/29/12.

LesOpinion: Beginning with the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 and ending with Prohibition-era gangsters, Agee's The River Wife is a sweeping, literate, epic adventure replete with an array of powerful women, dangerous men, and vice versa. It is also jam-packed with a few more of my favorite topics: natural history, horses, and ghosts.

Well-written and suspenseful, this is the kind of book that makes the Quest worthwhile.