• RG Home
  • RG Blog
  • Where RG?
  • RG Video
  • About RG
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • RG photos
  • RG Blurbs
  • RG Home
  • RG Blog
  • Where RG?
  • RG Video
  • About RG
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • RG photos
  • RG Blurbs

How Fire Runs by CDW

2/2/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
I just finished reading Charles Dodd White’s latest novel How Fire Runs (Ohio UP, 2020) and what a timely read it is. Neo-Nazi white supremacist Gavin Noon sets up in a former mental hospital in a fictional Carter County, Tennessee and attempts to get into local politics after being scolded for leading his cronies in an unauthorized highway cleanup. Noon’s particular brand of evil does not stay banal for long and ruckus ensues. CDW does a great job of dramatizing local politics and reminding the reader that romantic foibles do not abate just because one is involved in making history. How Fire Runs is a page-turner, engages insider-outsider politics and the politics of race in the southern mountains, creates a gallery of well-wrought characters, includes great nature writing, and maintains a lightning pace without abandoning White’s gift for lyricism. How Fire Runs is a good one.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Robert Gipe grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. He lives in Harlan, Kentucky.

    Archives

    April 2022
    March 2021
    February 2021
    September 2020
    July 2020
    January 2016
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly