Bonnie Jo Campbell's acclaimed novel "Once Upon a River" (W.W. Norton & Co.) is showing up on a number of end-of-the-year Top 10 lists. The book released in July also was mentioned in many must-read lists for the summer. Campbell who lives in Comstock, was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection of short stories "American Salvage."
The Christian Science Monitor listed the book at No. 3 on its list 10 Best Fiction Books of 2011, noting that "A Monitor reviewer called the novel an 'epic' with an unforgettable heroine."
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The Kansas City Star on Friday named the book to its list of Top 100 books of the year, with this description: "Invoking the spirit of Huck Finn and the skill of Annie Oakley, this stark coming-of-age tale sets 16-year-old Margo Crane adrift with little more than her wits and her rifle on an innocence-wrecking goose chase to find her wayward mother.
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Source: MLive.com
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