When’s the last time you picked up a book and finished it the same day?
It had been awhile for me, but Saturday I started and stayed up late to complete Ron Rash’s Saints at the River.
Even better? I plan on teaching the book, so I’m thrilled that it’s such a page-turner.
The hook for me was its setting: Tamassee, SC, which is only a 45-minute drive from campus.
In the same way that I want books to occasionally confuse me so I can remember what it’s like when you don’t know what to do with a book, it’s great to have a book suck me in so that I don’t really care about the paper you would write because the story is so compelling. Too often, my head outweighs my heart. This novel won over my heart, and my head followed.