Title: A Confluence of Rivers: A Memoir Through Digital Love Letters

Publisher / Publication date: Lydian Press (independent) (June 20, 2025)

Language: English

Format: Softcover, e-book, 425 pages

Genre:  Memoir

ISBN: 979-8-218-69631-3

ASIN: 979-8-218-69632-0

Reviewed by: Catherine Stover

You Will Want to Become Friends with This Author

Readers of memoirs get the front row seats. While readers of poetry get feelings and images, and readers of fiction get drama and surprises, those of us who read memoirs get real life. And a real person who tells us their story. 

A Confluence of Rivers: a Memoir Through Digital Love Letters is that rare memoir where both the story and the storyteller are appealing. The story is about a woman who saved a box of the printouts of all the emails that she exchanged with her former fiancé in the 1990s. Now, more than twenty years later, she has decided to read them. She tells us what she remembers, and then she reads the emails and shares the forgotten truths that she discovers.

In my opinion, the most successful memoirs show us how the author changed and became the person they are today as a result of what happened. I don't always like the storytellers – because not all interesting people are likeable – but it adds an extra layer of pleasure when I discover a person I am happy to know for several hundred pages.

I think that there is a good chance that you will understand the situation the author is in, cheer for her decisions, wince when things don't go well, and appreciate her honest responses. In short, I think you'll like her. 

— Catherine Stover