Friday Finds: In The Heart of the Canyon

In The Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde

Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading.

Here’s the blurb from the publisher:

From the author of The Abortionist’s Daughter, a gripping new novel about a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon that changes the lives of everyone on board.

Meet Peter, twenty-seven, single, and looking for a quick hookup; Evelyn, a fifty-year-old Harvard professor; and Ruth and Lloyd, river veterans in their seventies. There’s Mitchell, an overeager history buff with no qualms about upstaging the guides with his knowledge. There’s Jill from Salt Lake City, wanting desperately to spark some sense of adventure in her staid Mormon family; and seventeen-year-old Amy, so woefully overweight that she can barely fit into a pup tent, let alone into a life jacket.

Guiding them all is JT Maroney, who loves the river with all his heart and who, having made 124 previous trips down the Colorado, thinks he has seen everything. But on their first night, a stray dog wanders into their campsite, upsetting the tentative equilibrium of this makeshift family. Over the next thirteen days, as various decisions are second-guessed and sometimes regretted, both passengers and guides find that sometimes the most daunting adventures on a Colorado River trip have nothing to do with white-water rapids, and everything to do with reconfiguring the rocky canyons of the heart.

I almost picked this one up at the library last night but with all of the books that I am reading over the course of this month, I decided to hold off for a bit. What did you find this week?

9 thoughts on “Friday Finds: In The Heart of the Canyon”

I found a bunch of books on blogs; took my list to Barnes & Noble, and couldn't find even one of them! hmmmm. Not such a bad thing; I can't even see the top of my table where my TBR pile is!

Such a great cover! I read about this book a while ago. Sounds good.

It's so funny that you picked this today. My in-laws are out west and my mother-in-law called last night very excited about the Grand Canyon. Thankfully, they didn't take a rafting trip, though.

For the 100+ Reading Challenge…only link reviews if you want to. Not required, only optional.

Oh this sounds like a really good book…and not even a dark cover! lol

Looks interesting and kinda makes me want to visit the Grand Canyon.

~ Popin

Wonderful cover!

Friday Find: Magdalene and the Mermaids

I hit the used bookstore yesterday (actually, first I hired a babysitter, went out to coffee, then went to the bookstore) and I picked up three beat up copies of books I've been wanting to read for a while. It was a most relaxing afternoon (which I needed so much).