GATHER AT THE RIVER

From editors David Joy and Eric Rickstad comes Gather at the River, an anthology of twenty-five remarkable essays on fishing from an ensemble of contemporary authors.

Their experiences explore the ways we come to water, for renewal and reverie, or to simply stand waist-deep in a river and watch the trout rise. The contributors are an eclectic mix of critically acclaimed writers including New York Times Bestselling authors Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Leigh Ann Henion, Eric Rickstad, M.O. Walsh, and #1 Bestseller C.J. Box.

Gather at The River is Ron Rash writing about the Appalachia of his youth and C.J. Box revealing the river where he wants his ashes spread. It's Natalie Baszile on a frogging expedition in the Louisiana Bayou and the teenaged Jill McCorkle facing new realities of adulthood on Holden Beach, North Carolina. This is an anthology about friendship, family, love and loss, and everything in between, because as Henry David Thoreau wrote, "it is not really the fish they are after."

Anglers of all stripes will relish these delectable morsels of love, from the likes of RON RASH, C.J. BOX and more.

David Joy is the author of the Edgar nominated novel Where All Light Tends to Go, as well as the novels The Weight Of This World and The Line That Held Us. He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey, which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Garden & Gun, and The Bitter Southerner.

Eric Rickstad is the bestselling author of the novels The Silent Girls, Lie in Wait and Reap, all novels heralded as intelligent and profound, dark, disturbing, and heartbreaking. His newest novel is The Names of the Dead Girls.