Nightwoods grabs you from the beginning and holds you in place until the book is finished.Charles Frazier's style of writing makes you feel like you are there, in this novel Luce a caregiver of an abandoned resort has inherited the children of her murdered sister, living as an outcast from the co...
The best way I could find to describe the book is the American Civil War version of the Odyssey, with Inman as the wandering hero trying to find his way back home to the North Carolina Appallachians, and Ada as his Penelope tending the home fires. This is an oversimplification, but the epic scope...
Some say I did not join the soldiers and Indians when they headed out down the trail because the Indians had warned me something might happen. Others have said that maybe I felt crushing guilt and stayed there at the forks of the river under the big hemlock to reflect in solitude on my recent act...