![]() ![]() 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. 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. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. 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’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love. The first novel in 10 years and 20th book from award-winning author Ron Rash “One of the great American authors at work today” - The New York Times) ![]()
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