PositiveCleveland Review of BooksMany scenes should have been summaries ... For all my frustration, though, I found that as the book went on, Is a River Alive? was ultimately effective. ... He walks the edge of sentimentality without ever falling into it. A sense of fullness of life, a celebration of it, runs through this book, and by the end, it wears away the reader’s complacency and discouragement.
