Is a River Alive?

A New York Times Bestseller Special Jury Citation for the Banff Mountain Books Prize Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize An ABA Indie Next Pick An Economist , New Yorker , and Guardian Best Book of the Year A Time Must-Read Book of the Year One of NPR’s “Books We Love” of the Year A Washington Post Notable Work of the Year “As beautiful as the rivers and the hope he’s describing.” —Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times From the best-selling author of Underland and "the great nature writer…of this generation" ( Wall Street Journal ), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers—and life itself.