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SUMMARY:NC Reads Book Discussion: The Caretaker
DESCRIPTION:North Carolina Reads is North Carolina Humanities’ award-winning\, statewide book club! North Carolina Reads annually features five books that explore issues of racial\, social\, and gender equity and the history and culture of North Carolina. All featured books pose critical questions about how North Carolinians view their personal roles in helping to promote and form a more just and inclusive society.  Learn more about the book selections here. \nThe Caretaker by Ron Rash\nFiction. It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock\, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant\, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio\, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality\, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend\, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton\, is conscripted to serve overseas\, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob’s wife\, Naomi\, as well. Sixteen-year-old Naomi Clarke is an outcast in Blowing Rock\, an outsider\, poor and uneducated\, who works as a seasonal maid in the town’s most elegant hotel. When Naomi eloped with Jacob a few months after her arrival\, the marriage scandalized the community\, most of all his wealthy parents who disinherited him. Shunned by the townsfolk for their differences and equally fearful that Jacob may never come home\, Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer until a shattering development derails numerous lives.\nA tender examination of male friendship and rivalry as well as a riveting\, page-turning novel of familial devotion\, The Caretaker brilliantly depicts the human capacity for delusion and destruction all too often justified as acts of love. \nRegistration is required to join our discussion of The Caretaker. Books are available upon request starting November 2nd. \nWatch NC Humanities’ virtual book event (live event May 27th) with author Ron Rash.
URL:https://library.transylvaniacounty.org/event/nc-reads-book-discussion-the-caretaker/
LOCATION:1st floor of the Library\, 212 South Gaston Street\, Brevard\, NC\, 28712\, United States
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