Be my voice, the distant American River demanded. I want you to talk on my behalf. I was born in the sky, live on earth, changing and being changed. I was ravaged, my face mutilated, and still I mirror the sun like a diamond. My American River is about a love that cannot be measured by duration and loyalty. It is the story of a European woman who meets an American man in the Swiss Alps at a climactic moment in both of their lives. She joins...