Kenci’s Reviews > The River Knows Your Name: A Novel > Status Update

"Some folks would say there’s not a lot to do in a place like that, but it sure is beautiful in those mountains. I never lacked for something to do. Every walk in the woods was worth taking.”

"The day Evie discovered we weren’t really sisters, I pretended to be as surprised as she was, both of us staring wide-eyed at a certificate we’d found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in our mother’s bookcase. Evie was ten then, and no longer aware of anything before Mama and me. But I knew that Evie had come to us almost two years old, and that she had arrived on my sixth birthday. An unexpected gift."