A review by msmurph
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

3.0

Gave up 3/4 through. Despite re-reading the beginning I couldn’t figure out what era they were in. I couldn’t picture the characters. It’s a 1960’s poor, small town, midwestern family yet both kids have incredible vocabularies, their brother can break out of jail and ride off on a horse, and there’s also some sort of magical element? Reuben is an 11 year old yet talking in very advanced prose (I know it’s told from his POV later but still it was confusing)...and the younger sister constantly writing western poetry that my mind was too tired to figure out how it connected to the main plot. When Enger is on the main plot the book was decent...but it’s too few and far between the western or biblical tangents for my taste.