Same River Twice

“It’s rare to encounter a book that’s both thrilling and thoughtful, but that is Wiley Cash’s specialty. Same River Twice is the kind of gripping read you stay up too late with. But ultimately it’s so much more, a perceptive and quite moving novel about family, fate, and how history isn’t an abstract idea, but the force that shapes the lives we live right now.” —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash comes a transcendent story based in the contemporary South, a pressure-cooker novel set in motion when human remains are unearthed on a former plantation. Bennett Place was once a thriving North Carolina rice plantation, built on the backs of the enslaved. Now, its new owner plans to transform it into a historic landmark celebrating his family heritage.