The Rosewood Casket: A Ballad Novel: 4 (Ballad Novels 4)

Eloquent lyrical and richly textured . . . There is no one quite like [McCrumb] among present-day writers. No one better either. ―San Diego Union-Tribune. With a career spanning decades and superlatives from reviewers nationwide--whose bestselling novels have been named Notable Books by the New York Times and the LA Times--this is one of Sharyn McCrumbs most cherished novels. . The stage is set for family drama when Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm and his four sons come home to build him a coffin made from the special cache of rosewood he has saved for this purpose. Meanwhile mountain wisewoman Nora Bonesteel prepares another box―to be buried with him. Among them a real estate developer is hovering over the familys farm bringing secrets and tensions to the surface.. In a style both lyrical and beautifully detailed with a narrative that flows from Native American lore and the burnished tales of Daniel Boone―up to the sharpest and keenly realized landscapes of Appalachia today The Rosewood Casket is a novel as hauntingly beautiful as the mountains that gave it charge--and a stunning addition to our collection of McCrumb Ballad novels.