Peace Like a River By Leif Enger. A best selling book, it is a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story, which "what could be unbelievable becomes extraordinary". The author brings us an eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder. Their journey unfords like a revelation, and its conclusion show how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, the most tragic of fates.