Genre: Book
Grade: A-
Notable People: Ron Rash
Title: The Caretaker
Review: This is my first experience with the prolific and award-winning books of Rash, after I found this book on the Chicago Tribune’s “Best of” books for 2023. Great recommendation!!!. This very powerful novel, set during the Koren war in North Carolina and Tennessee, is a brilliant telling of the damage done by possessiveness and control, and ultimately lies strewn like ashes in order to achieve ignoble ends, but also the balancing out of that with love, redemption and forgiveness. Al this is bound in a compelling and very well told tale. Rash, a Penn/Faulkner award winner lives up to the billing. This is a book that is hard to put down. More Rash in store for me.