A Stream to Follow

a standout novel in post-WWII fiction that will grip your heart and never truly let go.

 

Reader’s Favorite

 

Jess Wright’s emotional rendering of a front-line surgeon searching for meaning in post-WWII America–is engaging, well-paced, and has an excellent arc of character, theme, and plot. 

Protagonist Bruce Duncan is relatable and worthy of an entire novel; his internal and external battles and hard-won decency is the driving force of the story.

IndieReader

 

A Stream to Follow touchingly examines trauma, heartbreak, and what it takes to move ahead, in a story that will please readers of character-driven historic and literary fiction.

Wright‘s ability to immerse the reader into the realistic plotline, whether in scenes of the war or of traversing the streets of small-town Pennsylvania, compels this engaging and humane novel forward to its riveting conclusion.

Book Life

 

These pages recall the best parts of Hemingway’s Nick Adams, diving deep into the ghosts of war, embers of passion, and the drive to do good work. Jess Wright has a breathtaking winner with A Stream to Follow.

 Devin Murphy, best-selling author of The Boat Runner and Tiny Americans

 

Historical fiction at its finest. Bruce Duncan is a determined and gentle hero whom readers will root for page after page.

Samantha Specks, award-winning author of Dovetails in Tall Grass. . .