Main Street. Looking northwest from the First Lutheran Church. 1889.
Reviews of City of Three Rivers
A wonderful novel, with many fascinating tidbits of Dayton's history. I loved it!
Nan Whaley, Mayor of Dayton
City of Three Rivers is both a sweeping, multigenerational, historical epic and an intimate story of three people discovering their truest selves. The book teems with fascinating characters – some historical and some fictional – all of them very real. In this beautifully written novel, the trials and triumphs of a young city coming of age in America's heartland are skillfully woven into a story about the striving and searching of three imperfect souls. Capturing both the wide perspective of historical progress and the personal evolution of the human heart, City of Three Rivers is an engaging and completely satisfying read.
Rachel Hyde, author of More Than We Know
This novel is America. Set in Dayton, Ohio, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it sweeps like a river through the lives, longings, and loves of this typically American city. It brings that time alive for us through historically accurate descriptions but mainly by forging a bond between the characters' humanity and ours. We are these people in all their strengths and weaknesses and they are us and we are America then and now. City of Three Rivers is a book that makes you appreciate this country without jingoistic flag waving.
William T. Hathaway, author of Wellsprings: A Fable of Consciousness
Grace Gillespie Carter has written the engrossing and richly woven tale of Susan Burke, who from childhood rebels against the limits set for a woman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In trying to find her place in the world, she confronts sorrows, secrets, and heartbreak against the background of the history of Dayton, Ohio and its disastrous floods, but she also shows courage and determination in her quest, and finds support in the love of her family. A beautifully written historical novel with a far-reaching story, City of Three Rivers takes the reader through decades in the lives of Susan and her family, through marriages, deaths, mysteries to be untangled, and so much more.
Dorothy Stephens, author of A Door Just Opened and Kwa Heri Means Goodbye; Memories of Kenya 1957-1959
A wonderful novel, with many fascinating tidbits of Dayton's history. I loved it!
Nan Whaley, Mayor of Dayton
City of Three Rivers is both a sweeping, multigenerational, historical epic and an intimate story of three people discovering their truest selves. The book teems with fascinating characters – some historical and some fictional – all of them very real. In this beautifully written novel, the trials and triumphs of a young city coming of age in America's heartland are skillfully woven into a story about the striving and searching of three imperfect souls. Capturing both the wide perspective of historical progress and the personal evolution of the human heart, City of Three Rivers is an engaging and completely satisfying read.
Rachel Hyde, author of More Than We Know
This novel is America. Set in Dayton, Ohio, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it sweeps like a river through the lives, longings, and loves of this typically American city. It brings that time alive for us through historically accurate descriptions but mainly by forging a bond between the characters' humanity and ours. We are these people in all their strengths and weaknesses and they are us and we are America then and now. City of Three Rivers is a book that makes you appreciate this country without jingoistic flag waving.
William T. Hathaway, author of Wellsprings: A Fable of Consciousness
Grace Gillespie Carter has written the engrossing and richly woven tale of Susan Burke, who from childhood rebels against the limits set for a woman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In trying to find her place in the world, she confronts sorrows, secrets, and heartbreak against the background of the history of Dayton, Ohio and its disastrous floods, but she also shows courage and determination in her quest, and finds support in the love of her family. A beautifully written historical novel with a far-reaching story, City of Three Rivers takes the reader through decades in the lives of Susan and her family, through marriages, deaths, mysteries to be untangled, and so much more.
Dorothy Stephens, author of A Door Just Opened and Kwa Heri Means Goodbye; Memories of Kenya 1957-1959
Historical photographs courtesy of the Dayton Metro Library
