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A review by debi_g
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
4.0
Even though this novel is not vacation fare, I found it fun to read this while a passenger in a car driving across North Carolina.
The story resembles the here-and-gone heat of a campfire, from kindling to roaring logs to smoldering embers and the curious vacancy left by its absence. These are good and admirable traits.
The children are not caricatures and the villain isn't over-the-top, which relieved my fears of ruination. Devout, fearful, long suffering, and remorseful characters populate this book, and flashbacks are frequent.
The comparisons to Tom Franklin are justified, but I do not understand why Tawni O'Dell's name never comes up. Maybe it's because she's a woman. Maybe it's because she portrays a similar region and its polarizing wealth and poverty in an even more compelling, sympathetic, and deft manner.
The story resembles the here-and-gone heat of a campfire, from kindling to roaring logs to smoldering embers and the curious vacancy left by its absence. These are good and admirable traits.
The children are not caricatures and the villain isn't over-the-top, which relieved my fears of ruination. Devout, fearful, long suffering, and remorseful characters populate this book, and flashbacks are frequent.
The comparisons to Tom Franklin are justified, but I do not understand why Tawni O'Dell's name never comes up. Maybe it's because she's a woman. Maybe it's because she portrays a similar region and its polarizing wealth and poverty in an even more compelling, sympathetic, and deft manner.