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Peace Like a River is Leif Enger’s extraordinary debut novel—a heroic quest

I didn't want to let them go

to get some answers of his own

As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines

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Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do First Contact Science Fiction Peace Like a River isDear axolotl: Why do you have feathers growing out of your head? Axolotl: They aren't feathersthey're gills! They let me breathe underwater. Let's face it. Even as babies, we humans pay close attention to faces. Observing another person's features and expressions tells us whether they are happy, angry, excited, or sad. And when we look at an animal, it's hard not to imagine that its face is communicating human feelings. This isn't true, of course.