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Nightwoods

Nightwoods

Author(s): Charles Frazier

Location(s): North Carolina

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1950s

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Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Luce, a young woman, whohas chosen to live as a caretaker in a remote cabin in North Carolina. Happy to be in nature, away from civilisation. But a man from the state department shows up and with him he as her murdered sister Lily’s childre and they are either to live with her as next of kin, or they will go into care. She naturally decides to take them but discovers they come with more “baggage” than she thought possible.

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Nightwoods is exceptionally well written; the gloriously vivid descriptions of the idyllic alpine-setting allow you to picture the rural homestead. Frazier’s descriptions of 1950’s North Carolina are brilliant. -TS –

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