Perfume River

"A beautiful story with raw and rich characters showing humanity at its flawed worst and inspiring best."

A struggling young artist. A bus stop. A boy.

An unlikely friendship is the backdrop for a story about anxiety and hope, about believing in the future and reconciling the past.

Sam Ellings drew everyday people doing everyday things: waiting around at the bus stop, at the grocery store, at the bank. Despite the Cold War tensions of the late 1980s, she figured things would turn out okay. T...