Into This River I Drown

Benji Green runs the convenience store his father, Big Eddie, left behind in Roseland, Oregon. Five years ago Big Eddie died when his truck went into a river. Everyone treated it as an accident, but Benji is sure there was more to it. He is still deep in grief, living one day at a time with his mother and three aunts close by.

Roseland is not an ordinary town. Benji's dreams of his father's death come more often, and he sees feathers floating on the surface of the river while awake. He cannot tell whether ghosts or memories are haunting him, and his sense of what is real starts to slip.

Then a man falls from the sky and leaves the burning imprint of wings in the ground. Benji begins to see that the world is stranger than he thought, and more dangerous. Forces beyond anyone's control move into town and bring buried truths about his friends and family to the surface. They also bring Calliel, a stranger Benji comes to need.

The book blends contemporary small-town life with the supernatural and the fantastical. It opens in mourning and a quiet routine, and the mood turns uneasy and mysterious as the strange events pile up.