{"id":1158,"date":"2012-01-13T21:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:02:19","slug":"nightwoods-by-charles-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Nightwoods by Charles Frazier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charles Frazier, the author of the best selling\u00a0 Cold Mountaun\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0 Thirteen Moons<\/em>,\u00a0hits a home run \u00a0once again with\u00a0 Nightwoods<\/em>,\u00a0the\u00a0intriguing and suspenseful story of a young woman living a solitary, isolated life in rural North Carolina.\u00a0\u00a0Luce is content with her life as the caretaker of an abandoned lodge, far from the nearest small town.\u00a0 Her harsh upbringing\u00a0has led\u00a0her to belive that\u00a0people will\u00a0only hurt and disappoint her, so she lives off the land, with only rare human contact.\u00a0 Her world is upended when she becomes the guardian of her murdered sister’s children.\u00a0\u00a0Damaged by witnessing their mother’s brutal\u00a0murder, they will not speak and are interested only in setting fires.\u00a0\u00a0As she struggles to find \u00a0a way to bring the children back to reality, Luce also finds her own\u00a0life opening to both hopeful and sinister elements\u00a0that will alter her views forever.\u00a0\u00a0Although set in the\u00a0 1960s, this timeless story will touch readers who enjoy stories with lush settings and compelling, characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Frazier, the author of the best selling\u00a0 Cold Mountaun\u00a0and\u00a0 Thirteen Moons,\u00a0hits a home run \u00a0once again with\u00a0 Nightwoods,\u00a0the\u00a0intriguing and suspenseful story of a young woman living a solitary, isolated life in rural North Carolina.\u00a0\u00a0Luce is content with her life as the caretaker of an abandoned lodge, far from the nearest small town.\u00a0 Her harsh … Continue reading Nightwoods by Charles Frazier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}