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1996 novel by Janet Peery
The River Beyond the World is a 1996 novel by American novelist Janet Peery. Though her debut novel, the novel was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel follows the relationship of two women on separate sides of the Rio Grande, in South West Texas and Mexico.