The Frozen River: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon you Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street

Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula

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Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’ mother

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The Frozen River: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon you Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main StreetMaine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the towns most