A nostalgic look at life in the Mississippi Delta in 1954. Quiver River is told in a wholesome manner that is appropriate for the whole family. True-to-life historical fiction at its best, the action picks you up and carries you along through the mischief, and struggles to grow up, of a 10 year old boy spending his summer on his grandfather's share cropping farm. But as I said in the prologue, "I'm not going to sit here, an old man, and tell you all about that summer: let's just sit back together and listen to that young boy who was me thinking, dreaming, telling the story in his own words."