Excerpted from The River is Waiting: A Novel by Wally Lamb. Copyright © 2025 by Wally Lamb. Reprinted by permission of Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC.

The year is 2008. Jim Reid, the outside linebackers coach for the Miami Dolphins, is sitting down with Dolphins linebacker ...

I am going to talk about my mother today. Yes, I know I should have done this for Mother’s Day, but she always did say that I ...