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| Author | Ron Rash |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Southern Gothic, Bildungsroman |
| Publisher | Henry Holt |
Publication date | April 2006 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 289 (hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 0-8050-7866-5 (Hardcover edition) |
| OCLC | 60824236 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3568.A698 W67 2006 |
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In 1970s western North Carolina, a young man stumbles across a grove of marijuana, sees an opportunity to make some easy money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. He is discovered by the ruthless farmer who set the trap to protect his plants, and begins his struggle with the evils of his community's present as well as those of its history. Before long, he has moved out of his parents' home to live with a onetime schoolteacher who now lives in a trailer outside town, deals a few drugs, and studies journals from the American Civil War. Their fates become entwined as the community's terrible past and corrupt present lead to a violent reckoning with the marijuana farmer and with a Civil War massacre that continues to divide an Appalachian community.
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