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Where Rivers Change Direction

Mark Spragg

The author captures his childhood perfectly in this wonderful memoir.

Spragg and his younger brother were uprooted from their childhood home in Pennsylvania at an early age.Their father, a lawyer, decides one day to start a new life by purchasing the oldest Dude Ranch in the country, and relocates the whole family to the Wyoming wilderness. (Their property adjoins the largest tract of undeveloped land in the US.)

Spragg’s book is knock out for its story quality alone, but I found Mark’s writing to be in a class truly by itself. From being responsible (at the age of fourteen) for the lives of guests of the ranch, from taking them on week long forays into the wilderness, to nursing a sick horse overnight all alone in the deep woods of Wyoming, and Mark’s deep love for a sister he never knew, this book will haunt you with its images. As memoirs go, this is by far my favorite. Mark is presently a screenwriter. Robert Redford will star in Where Rivers Change Direction, his latest work co-written with his wife, to be released in theatres in the fall. Mark’s cousin lives in Fairfield and Mark has done a book reading/ signing here.

Review by Tony Kainauskas.