The Caretaker - Ron Rash
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Literature, Adults
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash (One of the great American authors at work todayThe New York Times) 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., Its 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 It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living.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 Jacobs wife, Naomi, as well., Sixteen-year-old Naomi Clarke is an outcast in Blowing Rock, an outsider, poor and uneducated, who works as a seasonal m
