Alesha Cary’s Reviews > Two Rivers > Status Update

The book is moving back and forth in time from Harper’s childhood/young adulthood in the late 1950s and early 1960s to the present in 1980, and to a night in 1968. In the early timeline, he is falling in love with Betsy and building a life around her when they are still children. In 1980, Maggie stays with them, and his friend Brooder kills himself, while in 1968, Brooder kills someone while Harper watches.