“I believe Karen Nelson has just invented a whole new genre: Summer Camp Noir. The Last Summer at Feather River is a thrilling novel whose pastoral setting belies the dark depths that it bravely plumbs: the hormonal confusions of adolescence, the malleability of our memories, and, most profoundly, our efforts to suppress the truth of what we've lived through. It's also a genuine page turner, driven by a galloping sense of suspense and delivered in deft and assured prose. A winner."

–Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World and Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow

“Karen Nelson’s propulsive The Last Summer at Feather River follows Brooke, who reluctantly returns to her family’s ranch camp in rural California to help her uncle a decade after a tragic accident shut down the camp. Or was it an accident? Nelson’s evocative prose makes you feel the dust on your boots and a horse’s sweet alfalfa breath, all while the emotional riptide of the story pulls you into places where memory is unreliable and guilt runs deep. A seductive, satisfying read.”

— Samantha Dunn, Journalist and author of Not by Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life

“Karen Nelson lures us into the rich, evocative world of The Last Summer at Feather River with compelling characters and gorgeous prose. Brooke returns to her grandfather’s ranch ten years after a life-changing incident. Nelson teases us with secrets – what happened then? What will happen now? This wonderful novel is part mystery, part family drama – and it’s all engrossing.”

—Ellen Sussman, New York Times bestselling author of four novels, A Wedding in Provence, The Paradise Guest House, French Lessons and On a Night Like This.

“In Karen Nelson’s suspense-filled novel, The Last Summer at Feather River, the secret that forced her grandfather’s summer camp to close forever still haunts Brooke’s dreams ten years later when she’s forced to return to the ranch. Rich in camp vibes, this page-turner braids past and present with Nelson steering us masterfully toward the one fateful night that changed everything.”

—Cynthia Newberry Martin, author of The Art of Her Life

“...what really gripped me were those moments we ride with Brooke as Nelson takes the ranch’s gorgeous, spirited, horses through their heart-thumping paces with the details of a master equestrian. Definitely a story for horse lovers..and those who appreciate beautiful lyrical writing where love of place jumps off the page into our heart.”

—Robin Somers, author of Three Marys

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