In the Heart of the Canyon »

Elisabeth Hyde is the author of four previous novels. Born and raised in New Hampshire, she has since lived in Vermont, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Seattle. In 1979 she received her law degree and practiced briefly with the U.S. Department of Justice. She currently lives in Colorado with her family.
 
Visit the author's website at www.elisabethhyde.com.

From the author of The Abortionist s Daughter, a gripping new novel about a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon that changes the lives of everyone on board.

Peter, twenty-seven and unemployed, embarks on this journey to avoid his family, while Evelyn, a fifty-year-old biology professor, comes in search of a more visceral life. Ruth and Lloyd, veteran white-water rafters in their seventies, know they will never make this trip again. Jill, a stay-at-home mother with her husband and two boys in tow, craves the luxury of relinquishing control and following someone else s rules. Mitchell and his wife, Lena, are re-creating a historic river journey undertaken years before. Seventeen-year-old Amy Van Doren and her mother set off on this journey expecting little, especially from each other; together they will face the most daunting journey of all, one that has nothing to do with whitewater rapids.

And guiding them all is JT Maroney, who, in his 124...

The New York Times - Liesl Schillinger

[Hyde's] prose is vigorous and natural, her perception subtle, her voice and those of her characters all-American…While Hyde takes care to bring the scenery to life…her true artistry shows not in her landscapes but in her portraits. Each person on the trip is engaged in a voyage of self-discovery.