In a review of “The Caretaker,” Ron Rash’s first novel in seven years, Kendal Weaver writes that Rash has created a compelling drama of young lovers in rural Appalachia in the early 1950s.
The novel moves smoothly back and forth in time. It opens a world away from Blowing Rock on the shore of a frozen river at the border with North Korea. Drafted and sent into the war zone, Jacob is trying to survive and return to Naomi, who is nearing time for the birth of their child.
Jacob’s parents, however, do not see her attractions. They have wholly different — even diabolical — plans for her. With pulsing drama from the outset, “The Caretaker” can be hard to put down from one chapter to the next. Rash’s touch depicting the early 1950s in Appalachia also makes turning pages a pleasure.
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