The release date for the English version of 'River, Cross My Heart' by
Breena Clarke is Oct 1999. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The critically acclaimed bestseller—an Oprah Book Club selection—brings to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, around 1925, and a community in shock after the untimely loss of a little child.
The town must come to terms with the terrible loss when five-year-old Clara Bynum drowns in the Potomac River under what locals refer to as the "Three Sisters," an apparently haunted rock protrusion.
Bynum's friends and family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; Clara's sister, ten-year-old Johnnie Mae, who is thrust into adolescence and must come to terms with the terrible and confused emotions stirred by her sister's death; and Willie Bynum, who is torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city—all feel the effects of Clara's death powerfully charted by Clarke.
This very talented first book paints a vital and heartbreaking picture of the Washington, DC neighborhood, resonating with ideas, passionate poetry, and sad historical information.