The River Was Waiting

"In this age, where violence has become normalized, The River Was Waiting is a must read." Michael Fryd, author of My Mother's War

The year is 1963.

Raped by a supposedly respectable older man, graduate student Mabel Gorne flees New England for Manhattan. She's unaware that the perpetrator died in a murder-suicide. If she reveals the truth, will she be blamed for the crime?

Mabel carries another dark secret. She's pregnant. Her rapist is the father. With abortion confined to shady doctors, b...