The Frozen River: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon you is more interested in fixing

is more interested in fixing cars than falling in love—unless it’s with her sister’s suitor

a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake

Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula

While their relationships

The Frozen River: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon you is more interested in fixingMaine, 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 the close knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the towns most