Diamond, the narrator of Essie Chambers’ rich and insightful debut, “Swift River,” longs to leave her New England hometown, a place of historic racial strife where she feels like a “spectacle,”both ...
A man died trying to rescue his wife and her son from the Swift River in New Hampshire in the fourth drowning death in the state in less than a week, the state police said. The deceased, identified as ...
After her father vanishes when she is 9 years old, Diamond Newberry is the only remaining Black person in her small New England mill town, left with her increasingly despondent White mother. She is so ...
A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A Most Anticipated Book from Today, Real Simple, Time, Los Angeles Times, and BookPage "The book we all need to revive our souls" (Nicole Dennis-Benn): A ...
Jenna Bush Hager chose Essie Chambers' debut novel "Swift River" for her June 2024 Read With Jenna selection. "'Swift River' is a story filled with secrets: community secrets and family secrets," ...