Re-creation of Brian Kent

The title says it all: this is a story about being born again. Brian Kent was a bank clerk until desperation drove him to theft. Now he's a fugitive, drunk, and determined to die, he steers his stolen boat into a raging river. But the current spits him onto the banks of the Ozarks, where two women find him: Judy, a mountain girl with plain speech and fierce kindness, and Auntie Sue, the former schoolteacher everyone trusts. They nurse him back to health, give him a new name, and offer something he thought he'd lost forever: a chance to start over. Yet the past has long arms, and Brian must prove that redemption is more than just a word. Wright populates his healing landscape with women who act, decide, and save not because they're supposed to, but because they can. It was among the top ten best-selling novels of 1919 and 1920, and it still speaks to anyone who believes people deserve second acts.