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Overview

Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie Oakley, in search of her vanished mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone, and she must be strong to survive, using her knowledge of the natural world and her ability to look unsparingly into the hearts of those around her. Her river odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining journey, one that leads her beyond self-preservation and to the decision of what price she is willing to pay for her choices.

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This second novel by National Book Award finalist Campbell (American Salvage) is set in Murrayville, a rural Michigan town far removed from the modern world. Inhabitants have lived off the Stark River for generations, including 16-year-old Margo Crane's family. She's been taught the best fishing spots and knows the hidden dangers downstream from the Murray Metal Fabricating Plant. Her carefree existence ends when her mother, a depressed alcoholic, leaves town, and Margo is raped by her uncle Cal. Margo's unique revenge leads to her father's death, a tragic event that nevertheless sets her free from being at the mercy of the Murrays. Equipped with ammunition, food, her father's ashes, and a pink envelope with her mother's return address, she takes her father's boat downstream, determined to find her mother. Margo survives by hunting, fishing, and garden pilfering and by distrusting people. Her river odyssey ultimately leads to self-preservation on her terms. VERDICT A truthful and deeply human story that pulls us in and won't let go. Readers looking for superior fiction are in for an uplifting, first-rate story. [See Prepub Alert, 1/10/11.]—Donna Bettencourt, Mesa Cty. P.L., Grand Junction, CO
Jane Smiley
It would be too bad if, because of Campbell's realistic style and ferocious attention to her setting, Once Upon a River were discounted as merely a fine example of American regionalism. It is, rather, an excellent American parable about the consequences of our favorite ideal, freedom.
—The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393079890
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 7/5/2011
  • Pages: 348
  • Sales rank: 34,488
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of three previous books of fiction including American Salvage, a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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  • Posted September 13, 2011

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    Quite a Ride

    It is 1970s Michigan. When her father is killed, 16 year old Margo Crane loads a rowboat with supplies, along with her rifle, and sets off in search of her mother. Margo doesn't consider this dangerous, as the river is her sanctuary, her salvation. She also has her favourite book, the book of her personal inspiration: Annie Oakley.

    This river journey through Michigan becomes one of self exploration and self discovery. It is a defining journey for Margo. She will meet with many hardscrabble people, and encounter experiences beyond the normal for a 16 year old girl. But Margo is not the normal 16 year old.

    Once again, Bonnie Jo Campbell has written a unique book, filled with characters and situations that life is really made of. It is intense, even harsh at times. This book will take you on quite a ride!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 9, 2011

    Total Disappointment

    I didn't find this book enjoyable whatsoever. With about 100 pages to go, I started skimming descriptive paragraphs (and focused on dialogue)just to get it over with. If I had borrowed this book from the library, I would have returned it without finishing it. Since I paid for it, I felt obligated (to myself) to finish.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 5, 2011

    Good Read

    Very good reading, it holds one's interest.

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  • Posted September 12, 2011

    Future Bag lady

    Well written but didn't like the story. Main character too blood thirsty and short sighted. Pictured a future with social services taking the baby and Margo becoming a homeless bag lady.

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  • Posted August 24, 2011

    Great story

    Enjoyed this story

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 10, 2011

    I can relate

    I found the charactors interesting and realistic. I was once the too quiet, introvert, too. Now I am living in the Kalamazoo area, and I find many people of the types depicted in this good book.

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  • Posted July 17, 2011

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    The River in the Forefront

    But of course it really is about the river, it is the true protagonist in this down home telling. The flesh and blood girl Margo takes second billing. I was not convinced that Margo was natural born in the rural Michigan environs, she is super-imposed and quite doesn't blend in. Author Bonnie Jo Campbell is a puppeteer quite dropping the girl into each encounter and so we are left with an inauthentic series of forced adventures.

    Rather bold, in the right hands, is the Annie Oakley idolization by Margo, but as the girl is a bit slow, I don't see her drawing much from the biography and so we are decidedly beat over the head with the volume and it become a running joke. In the end, it is hard for a character to compete with the audacious breadth of nature. If you want a man larger than nature tale, read "Deliverance."

    * As I have stated in past reviews, I don't recommend any works completed since the beginning of time. I mention "Deliverance" only as a better man/nature novel, but it is inherently flawed.

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