Peace Like a River: Chapters 5-7

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Welcome back! Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they dive deeper into Leif Enger's Peace Like a River. They talk about whether Davy's actions were justified and how the novel treats them, the lack of a mother-figure in the story, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I'm joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh.
0:08.7	Heidi and Tim, welcome back. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.
0:12.3	Happy New Year. We're recording on December 30th. It's Monday. It's the Monday after Christmas.
0:18.5	So, you know, we're all a little frazzled, a little out of it.
0:21.3	But, you know, we've got to give the people what they want, as they say on one podcast that I
0:24.6	listen to. And presumably, what the people want is to listen to another episode of Close Reads
0:29.0	on Peace Like a River by Lee Finger. Because based on the Facebook page, people are cuckoo for this book. I know.
0:37.7	Oh, it's so good.
0:39.0	I can't wait to talk about it.
0:40.3	After all the Christmas festivities, all the cooking and the dishes, this is just what we need.
0:45.4	Good.
0:47.1	Let's talk about the question of redemption in just a second.
0:52.5	I want to start there because we finished.
0:53.9	It came up in the last episode, and I want to start there because we finished.
0:56.2	It came up in the last episode,
0:57.7	and I want to dive right back into that.
0:59.0	But before we do that,
1:00.6	I want to remind people how they can get in touch and how they can participate in the conversation.
1:02.4	If you're a listener who wants to do that,
1:04.4	you can head over to Facebook.
1:05.3	You can search close reads in the little search bar on Facebook,
1:08.4	and you can then click that join button and join the conversation
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