The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon Nonfiction came to the New World

came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family’s legacy of greed

While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library

"Broken Country destroyed me

in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense

A beguiling ode to a lost era

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon Nonfiction came to the New WorldThese markings of ink and paper will one day be the only proof that I have existed in this world. That I lived and breathed' Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in