Of rain, a river

This section of Of Rain, A River was written, workshopped, revised, revised, reworkshopped, revised, revised, etc. while the author was a Master's candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This novel section introduces the fictional landscape of Dine, Missouri and Nemanya County, in Northwest Missouri. This section follows the characters of Wes, Jory and Bill Schmidt, Carson and Danny Sellers, and Xenia. "Of Place" is a short essay about the various places in, and of, fiction.