River, Cross My Heart

The acclaimed bestseller — a selection of Oprah's Book Club — that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.



When five-year-old Clara Bynum drowns in the Potomac River under a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters, the community must reconcile themselves to the bitter tragedy.


Clarke powerful charts the fallout from Clara's death on the people she has left behind:...