Marian Palaia's 'Given World' captures life's unpredictability
by Lou Fancher Finding peace is a little like going to war in Marian Palaia's debut novel, "The Given World." Riley is a 30-something woman in search of her older brother Mick ""or his bones or if not his actual bones, then his spirit, and anything else he could have left behind" " long after he failed to return from the Vietnam War. Mick left when Riley was age 9 and her life ever since has been a kin…