Find the River

Tasked with sorting through her great-grandmother’s research into family history, 19-year-old Linn reads a will from 1762 that starts her wondering about her ancestors and their lives. Home from her freshman year at a prestigious college, she tries to cope with a near-rape she fended off, and with decisions about her future. She considers the darker parts of her family story and imagines a past as conflicted as her own life. Alongside Linn’s coming of age, Find the River follows Philip Alston and connected families through the American Revolution and beyond. Laura Kelly Campbell excavated her family history and here weaves a compelling story across the generations from the fragments of the tales which remain.