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Summer in Madison County. Seventeen-year-old Travis Shelton cannot see a way out of his small town - until he discovers a grove of marijuana in the woods that could make him some serious money. But Travis has stumbled across more than drugs. His discovery is the first unwitting step in a journey back to the savage violence and betrayal festering in the community's past, and to the corruption in its present. Vivid and unsettling, The World Made Straight is a powerful exploration of the secrets that bind us together and drive us apart.
About the author
Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and
New York Times-bestselling novel
Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels
The Risen,
Above the Waterfall,
The Cove,
One Foot in Eden,
Saints at the River and
The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them
Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award,
Nothing Gold Can Stay, a
New York Times bestseller, and
Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize and winner of the 2014 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
www.ronrashwriter.com
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Compelling . . . Rash manages to convince you right from the first page that his characters and his story are going to matter to you NICK HORNBY
