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A Novel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
October 2023
On Sale: September 26, 2023
Featuring: Naomi Clarke; Jacob Hampton; Blackburn Gant
272 pages
ISBN: 0385544278
EAN: 9780385544276
Kindle: B0BR4YJ97Q
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Historical | Small Town
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 today"—The 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.
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his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences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.
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.
A tender examination of male friendship and rivalry as
well as a riveting, compelling novel of familial
devotion, The Caretaker brilliantly depicts the
human capacity for delusion and destruction all too often
justified as acts of love.
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