A review by kamckim
The Risen by Ron Rash

4.0

I absolutely love Ron Rash, as my past reviews of his other books will show. I was happily surprised by this narrative. It had a slightly more straight-forward and quick narrative about one powerful family in a rural North Carolina town. Two brothers met a girl at the creek in the summer of 69. With her death, she becomes the unspoken ghost who separates the two for life until her body is discovered some 40 years later. The younger brother, Eugene, comes face to face with events that led him to a life of alcoholic dissolution. He also comes face to face with his brother Bill, a successful neurosurgeon in Asheville, who has lived with a horrible secret for years, justifying his choices in the name of a greater good. The story reveals the cruelty of hypocrisy that lies beneath the surface of every human.