03910cam a2200685 4500 2575085606 TxAuBib 20250924120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385544283 0385544286 B0BR4YJ97Q Amazon c2c74103-1eb3-4830-9cf4-5c5c9470d9dc OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9511533 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rash, Ron. The Caretaker [e-iNC eBook] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023. books historical fiction best sellers. the caretaker a novel by ron rash. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. historical fiction best sellers. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. historical fiction books. the caretaker ron rash. ron rash the caretaker. Historical Romance. book the caretaker. literary fiction. Japanese novels. literary novels. caretakers book. literary books. caretaker book. ron rash books. books fiction. The Caretaker. John Grisham. family life. Historical. literature. fall books. caretaker. community. soldiers. betrayal. ron rash. secrets. awards. South. Korea. War. HTML:<b>ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, <i>The Caretaker</i> by award-winning author Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today" —<i>The New York Times</i>) 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.</b><br /> It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. 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 It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. 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.<br /> 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. When Naomi eloped with Jacob a few months after her arrival, the marriage scandalized the community, most of all his wealthy parents who disinherited him. Shunned by the townsfolk for their differences and equally fearful that Jacob may never come home, Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer until a shattering development derails numerous lives.<br /> A tender examination of male friendship and rivalry as well as a riveting, page-turning novel of familial devotion, <i>The Caretaker</i> brilliantly depicts the human capacity for delusion and destruction all too often justified as acts of love. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-09-23 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c2c74103-1eb3-4830-9cf4-5c5c9470d9dc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c2c74103-1eb3-4830-9cf4-5c5c9470d9dc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)