Leif Enger
This national best seller is a mixture of adventure, tragedy and healing. Enger introduces us to Reuben Land, an eleven-year-old asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder. Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, and the most tragic of fates. (Grove Press, paperback, 2001, 311pp)
