Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

This engaging first novel, set in the early 1960s, follows the Land family — father Jeremiah; son Reuben, 11; and daughter Swede, 9 — as they try to track down eldest son, Davy, 17, who has been convicted of murder but escaped from jail. Their trek occasions some literally miraculous events, and author Leif Enger makes the preposterous plausible and good fun.

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