The River You Touch: Learning the Language of Wonder and Home

The River You Touch: Learning the Language of Wonder and HomeAuthor: Chris Dombrowski ISBN: 9781639550630 Publisher: Milkweed Editions Year first published: 17 Jan 2023 Pages: 240 Format: Hardback "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us." from The River You Touch When Chris Dombrowski burst onto the

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Then a dispute explodes with a powerful councillor who refuses to allow the village wine fair to go ahead

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These images portray the evolution of Chicago from a frontier town to one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities

the family is split when their grief-stricken leader

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anddangerous anomalies in their new world threaten their ability to return home

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But perhaps death would have been preferable to betraying the men and the country she has come to love

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