Wally Lamb introduces us to a young man whose tragic accident has unfathomable consequences. Corby Ledbetter’s addiction to ...

How different accidental filicide feels in “The River Is Waiting,” when Corby kills his little boy at the opening of a novel that will grind on for more than 450 pages. For Lamb, the ambition ...

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Oprah Winfrey chooses "The River is Waiting" by Wally Lamb as her June book club pick, a third for the author.

In Wally Lamb’s latest novel, The River Is Waiting, Oprah's book club pick this month, Lamb draws upon his experiences as a volunteer writing instructor working with incarcerated women to shed ...

The River Is Waiting, by Wally Lamb (S&S/Marysue Rucci). This immersive novel of redemption, by a New York Times best-selling novelist, follows a stay-at-home father who gets into a car accident ...

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Still, the opening of his latest book, “The River Is Waiting,” screams in a pitch that will etch itself into your nightmares. Corby Ledbetter, a stay-at-home father of 2-year-old twins, Maisie ...