coric 's review for:

The River Always Wins: Water as a Metaphor for Hope and Progress by David Marquis

5.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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It is magical how the smallest packages can provide the largest surprises. Writing about water in the West will always have relevancy, but this is so much more than a simple nature narrative. On the surface this lyrical and contemplative essay is about the movement of water and rivers transforms and changes the earth, but it is also a hope filled meditation on the human spirit and social movements. Explorations of all aspects of water are skillfully intertwined with history and human nature to provide a compelling metaphor for transformation and change. As an inspirational call to action, our hope is renewed with a beautiful reminder about the power of time and persistence alongside the potential both the individual and the collective have for creating social change. The brevity and poetry I discovered with this book will draw me back again and again when I am in need of encouragement and reassurance.