english: The river that was bursting with life  in their childhood greets them “with a ghastly skull’s smile, with holes where teeth had been, and a limp hand raised  from a hospital bed.” As Roy probes the depths of human  experience, she never loses sight of the way her  characters are shaped by the time and the place where they live.
non_english: Reka koja je bujala životom u njihovom detinjstvu pozdravlja ih „avetinjskim osmehom bezube lobanje i dizanjem mlitave ruke sa bolničke postelje.” Roj preispituje dubine ljudskog iskustva, nikada ne gubeći iz vida način na koji su njeni likovi oblikovani vremenom i prostorom u kome žive.