"Downriver" begins beside the race of the Hopnegs, midget 3-inch gangly people, who similar Humans are born but trepidation Human machines as "demons". One of these "demons" lives up to its reputation when it runs done and all destroys the dwelling house of the Hopneg, Popey. He just escapes beside his go in his pajamas, and the need of personal effects turns him into a Punk, or a Hopneg without the artifice of relation. Seeking to caution the those of his proximate village, he travels to the community to verbalize his e-mail to its leader, Rouger. After delivering his message, Rouger, decides supported on the desirability of the Book, to decision the total rural community to a contrary position. Popey and other Hopneg, Rod, marshal the town to undo the "demon" by putting graminaceous plant into its drain. But this fails as the Humans simply erase the neighbourhood. Having failed, the Hopnegs realize that they must go upriver, away from the "Giants". Popey, however, decides to go downstream in his quest to find cognition of the Humans and their obscure supernatural. Not far into Popey's trail, he is met by a Traveler titled Shajee who is knowing in the way of the global and the Humans. For instance, Shajee not solitary knows belongings almost the physiologic Human global and how to get say in it, he as well has an construal of Human science which, in my opinion, is in a way slightly greater than our concerned. As they trek done the Human cities, Popey and you, the reader, get a new orientation on these "Giants", or Humans who do everything bigger than themselves.
"Downriver" is for ages 12 and up, specially those who liked the "Borrowers" scrap book succession. Erik Hare's letters mode is new and unique, and refreshfully divergent. He gives realistic descriptions of infallible aspects of some the material and of my own communicating that set the feeling in a way dissimilar any other. Gradually, I became rapt in the content. "Downriver" is an interesting, humorous and sound tale that will be enjoyed by many a.