Author: Lyda Phillips
ISBN: 0595361722

To effectively deal with difficult topics addressed to a teenage audience such as suicide, sibling grief, guilt, anger, rejection, abnormal behavior, denial, and bullying is no easy feat and it takes a certain amount of boldness and courage on the part of the author to pull it off. This is precisely what Lyda Phillips set out to accomplish with her recent novel, Peace I Ask of Thee Oh River, and she has acquitted herself admirably.

Phillips recounts the story of a typical American 18-year old Eleanor or as she prefers to be called, El, who, as a counselor in a girls