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| The World Made Straight by Ron Rash Henry Holt & Co., NY 2006 Airs August 7 thru August 30, 2006 |
Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders onto a neighbor’s property
in the woods, discovers a crop of marijuana large enough to make him some
serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. The owner of the
marijuana and the bear trap strikes a deal with Travis, and so begins Travis’s
confrontations with the insidious evils that dwell within his rural world.
Before long, Travis has moved out of his parent’s home to live with a former
schoolteacher who now lives with his dogs and his sometime girlfriend in a
rundown trailer outside town and studies journals from the Civil War. The fate of
these two outsiders bear down on each of them from every direction, leading to a
violent reckoning - not only with the teacher, but with the legacy of a Civil War
massacre that, even after a century, continues to divide an Appalachian
community.
Author Rash has constructed a colorful cast of characters, and The World Made
Straight offers a powerful exploration of the painful conflict between the bonds of
home and the desire for independence
in the woods, discovers a crop of marijuana large enough to make him some
serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. The owner of the
marijuana and the bear trap strikes a deal with Travis, and so begins Travis’s
confrontations with the insidious evils that dwell within his rural world.
Before long, Travis has moved out of his parent’s home to live with a former
schoolteacher who now lives with his dogs and his sometime girlfriend in a
rundown trailer outside town and studies journals from the Civil War. The fate of
these two outsiders bear down on each of them from every direction, leading to a
violent reckoning - not only with the teacher, but with the legacy of a Civil War
massacre that, even after a century, continues to divide an Appalachian
community.
Author Rash has constructed a colorful cast of characters, and The World Made
Straight offers a powerful exploration of the painful conflict between the bonds of
home and the desire for independence
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