Novelist and poet Ron Rash’s second novel SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER, about the drowing of a thirteen-year-old girl, swept away in a whitewater river while on vacation, which divides a small Appalachian town as young woman journalist who grew up in the community is assigned to cover the story, which forces her to confront issues buried in her past, to Josh Kendall at Picador, who bought it for trade paperback, with Jennifer Barth of Holt buying for hardcover publication in spring 2004, in a good deal, by Marly Rusof (world).
Picador also bought reprint rights to Rash’s first novel ONE FOOT IN EDEN, for publication in winter 2004, in a nice deal, by Rusoff on behalf of Novello Festival Press.
(Published under the name SAINTS AT THE RIVER)
