• Major galley campaign, with galleys available for the sales force, major media, nonfiction media, environmental media, regional (Montana and the West) media, influential authors, social media influencers, booksellers and librarians; digital galleys available for download on Edelweiss
• Major media outreach, positioning this as an exciting follow-up to Body of Water from a rising star in the literary world, for readers of Jim Harrison and Lisa Wells
• Profile on USA Today to run in September 2022
• Major Indie Next campaign, with bookseller outreach focused on stores that sold Body of Water, as well as stores in the West and the Pacific Northwest
• Author attendance at SpringCon with MPIBA in April 2022
• Cover reveal and preorder newsletter campaign in collaboration with Literati in Ann Arbor; additional content—an excerpt from the book—promoted in the campaign
• Special marketing to major outdoor groups, including the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers group, with more than 100K members
• Audiobook ready by musician Jeffrey Foucault—who has almost 150K listeners on Spotify—released in tandem
• Newsletter promotion via the publisher to readers, sales and academic lists of more than 30K contacts
• Goodreads giveaway
• Advertising in Outside Magazine, Shelf Awareness, MPIBA and PNBA
• Major tour in Minneapolis, Missoula, Portland, Seattle, Point Reyes and Denver
• Reader's Guide available for download

“We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us.” —from The River You Touch

When Chris Dombrowski burst onto the literary scene with Body of Water, the book was acclaimed as “a classic” (Jim Harrison) and its author compared with John McPhee. Dombrowski begins the highly anticipated The River You Touch with a question as timely as it is profound: “What does a meaningful, mindful, sustainable inhabitance on this small planet look like in the anthropocene?”

He answers this fundamental question of our time initially by listening lovingly to rivers and the land they pulse through in his adopted home of Montana. Transplants from the post-industrial Midwest, he and his partner, Mary, assemble a life based precariously on her income as a schoolteacher, his as a poet and fly-fishing guide. Before long, their first child arrives, followed soon after by two more, all “free beings in whom flourishes an essential kind of knowing […], whose capacity for wonder may be the beacon by which we see ourselves through this dark epoch.” And around the young family circles a community of friends—river-rafting guides and conservationists, climbers and wildlife biologists—who seek to cultivate a way of living in place that moves beyond the mythologized West of appropriation and extraction.

Moving seamlessly from the quotidian—diapers, the mortgage, a threadbare bank account—to the metaphysical—time, memory, how to live a life of integrity—Dombrowski illuminates the experience of fatherhood with intimacy and grace. Spending time in wild places with their children, he learns that their youthful sense of wonder at the beauty and connectivity of the more-than-human world is not naivete to be shed, but rather wisdom most of us lose along the way—wisdom that is essential for the possibility of transformation.