Peace Like a River: The Final Chapters

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Here we are at the end of Leif Enger's Peace Like a River. In this episode David, Heidi, and Tim discuss the denouement (and overall structure) of the story, Rueben's fate, Davy's choice to leave (again), and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I am joined
0:06.7	by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh. Heidi, Tim, welcome back to the show. Thanks, David. Thank you, David.
0:12.0	How's it going? It's going great. It's freezing here. It's 16 degrees outside. You know,
0:18.2	you read Peace like a River in winter for a reason, right? It's really true, yes.
0:23.1	I feel I relate.
0:24.7	What about you, Tim?
0:25.4	Is it 16 degrees where you are, too?
0:27.4	No, it's actually in the 40s.
0:29.7	It's just how he was talking off the air about how, you know,
0:33.1	it just winter gets kind of long.
0:34.8	Winter in Seattle is long for me. And the hardest part is it's constantly
0:41.5	raining, except for during the summertime. Summers are perfect. But there's various forms of
0:46.2	rain and there's a certain form of rain that seems to arrive right about now, which is the clouds
0:52.5	feel like they're about eight feet off the ground,
0:55.0	maybe even lower, like six feet off the ground.
0:58.1	And there's just this perpetual drizzle and darkness.
1:02.8	So it's dark at 4.15, 430, and the clouds are hanging low.
1:10.3	Everything outside is wet and cold.
1:13.3	It's just like, I'm over.
1:15.2	Gloomy.
1:16.1	Yeah.
1:16.7	Done.
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