Riven: adjective, literary; alternate past participle of to rive. 1. torn apart 2. broken into pieces, split asunder. "My daughter would have been 29 years old this year," begins this inter-generational story. Senga Munro still blames herself two decades after her daughter's death. A literary novel, THE RIVEN COUNTRY OF SENGA MUNRO explores the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy and what it means to be "other" in rural Wyoming: Senga sees what others...