Where the River Bends: The Story of a Tragedy tells of a mother and son fighting to save themselves -- and each other -- from the destruction that sex, power and bigotry can cause, set in a turbulent and decisive period of American history. On a rainy day in November 1931, two years after the crash of the New York Stock Exchange, Celeste Vandenholm's husband drives his car over a cliff and ends up in a coma; Celeste is left with a teenage son, an autistic daughter, a Park Avenue lifestyle and a negative bank balance. She struggles to hold her family together against the...
Where the River Bends: The Story of a Tragedy tells of a mother and son fighting to save themselves -- and each other -- from the destru...