The arrival of those remains brings a conflict between two brothers to the fore. Now, decades later, her remains spill into a stream that flows to the sea. In a single, powerful paragraph Rash conveys the horror of a long-buried body rising to the surface, but does so in the most elegant and caring language imaginable. The “ preamble ” suggests that someone was murdered. The immediate question one confronts, especially upon seeing the picture on the cover, is who or what has risen. He proves again that he is so much more: a novelist of powerful universal themes who writes with the soul of a master poet. Do not be deceived by the setting of his work and limit him to being just a Southern, or more particularly, just an Appalachian writer. Ron Rash is a premier American writer of contemporary fiction.
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