North Carolina writer Ron Rash's latest novel, "The Caretaker," is set mostly in 1951 and mostly in and around Blowing Rock. But it reads like a mountain ballad, centuries old, passed down from the ...

Ron Rash's new novel 'The Caretaker' is a deep, touching tale set in the N.C. mountains

Chattanooga Times Free Press: Review: Ron Rash’s latest, ‘The Caretaker,’ is a haunted fable of love and loss

"THE CARETAKER" by Ron Rash (Doubleday, 272 pages, $28). For Blackburn Gant, the titular character of Ron Rash's new novel, "The Caretaker," the churchyard cemetery has become a dynamic landscape, one ...

Review: Ron Rash’s latest, ‘The Caretaker,’ is a haunted fable of love and loss

Post and Courier: Review: Masterful 8th novel from Ron Rash, 'The Caretaker,' is a promised fulfilled

THE CARETAKER: A Novel. By Ron Rash. Doubleday. 272 pages. $28. To the late Pat Conroy, multitalented writer Ron Rash was always “Mr. Big,” a term of jocular endearment equally evocative of Conroy’s ...

Review: Masterful 8th novel from Ron Rash, 'The Caretaker,' is a promised fulfilled

San Diego Union-Tribune: Book Review: Rural Appalachian family’s dreams turn dark in new Ron Rash novel, `The Caretaker’

Ron Rash has made the fog-shrouded ridges of Appalachia his fictional home in novels and short stories over a highly acclaimed career dating back decades. With “The Caretaker,” his first novel in ...

Book Review: Rural Appalachian family’s dreams turn dark in new Ron Rash novel, `The Caretaker’

WESA: 'The Caretaker' novel draws from author Ron Rash's own memories, family history