Blackwood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316529815)

In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods.
The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself -- when confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good.
The opposite is true: this is a landscape of fear and ghosts -- of regret and violence -- transformed by the kudzu vines that have enveloped the hills around it, swallowing homes, cars, rivers, and hiding a terrible secret deeper still.
Colburn, a junkyard sculptor who's returned to Red Bluff, knows this pain all too well, though he too is willing to hope for more when he meets and falls in love with Celia, the local bar owner. The Deep South gives these noble, broken, and driven folks the gift of human connection while bestowing upon them the crippling weight of generations. With broken histories and vagabond hearts, the townsfolk wrestle with the evil in the woods -- and the wickedness that lurks in each and every one of us.

Author: Michael Farris Smith
ISBN-10: 0316529818
ISBN-13: 9780316529815
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2019 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 01/20/2020
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 25
Shelf Awareness 03/27/2020
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020