Directory:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More

Goodbye to a River is of course required reading material for all incoming freshman at Texas State University this fall. And of course the administration picked an obscure book to make sure sure students would actually read for once. However thanks to Search engine optimizing firm Page Creations the truly lazy now have an out. So without further ado...

Plot Overview

So the author John Graves canoes down 150-200 miles of the upper-middle Brazos River where most of his childhood memories were before 5 new dams where scheduled to go in.

Chapters 1-5

The book opens up in October with graves trying to personify the river. He gives us some facts like since WWII the governments already put it two dams and 5 more are scheduled to go in soon. He then gives his two cents on how we should embrace the good old days but he then concedes progress in inevitable. He's a bit taoist if you ask me.

Chapter two starts with him coming back to west Texas then after BSing with an old merchant Graves and his best childhood friend Hale drive up to the new Possum Kingdom dam where they take his canoe and all his gear down by the river. Hale heads back to the wife, kids, and work while Graves meanders down the river with his only companion a dachshund puppy. He stops for the night and camps out along the back reminiscing and worrying that all the rain will make the river too high.