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In his follow-up to the Christy Award-winning River Rising, Dickson
focuses on a missionary, Riley Keep, who becomes an alcoholic after a
devastating experience in the mission field. Blending science fiction
and suspense, Dickson sets his novel in the small fishing town of
Dublin, Maine. Rich with local dialect and scenery, the novel explores
what happens to this bucolic village when dozens, then hundreds, of
desperate homeless people descend upon it, having heard that someone
there has a miracle cure for alcoholism. As Dublin becomes increasingly
dystopic, Riley and the people in his life experience one crisis after
another. Dickson's approach is thought-provoking, and his prose
beautifully evokes the taciturn spirit of the Mainers who people this
novel. As a suspense novel, however, it suffers from a series of
implausible misunderstandings. Far too many of the novel's crises
involve characters not having discovered facts the reader has known or
surmised for some time. Mistaken assumptions about identities,
relationships, motives, and culpability for evil deeds serve as a
tiresome framework for much of Dickson's plot. His characters seem too
smart not to make certain discoveries sooner, and this problem slows
down an otherwise well-paced novel that is full of interesting ideas
and well-developed characters.
This Christy-award-winning author's intricate blend of plot twists are a deft exploration into what truly makes a miracle.
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