‘Cold Mountain’ author Charles Frazier’s new book, ‘Nightwoods,’ set for release in October

Jason Sandford

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Asheville author Charles Frazier is set to release his new book, Nightwoods, in October. This one follows his award-winning blockbuster Cold Mountain and 13 Moons. Can’t wait to read it. Frazier’s Cold Mountain is one of my all-time favorite novels. 

Here’s some of what’s being said about Night Woods:

From bitethebook.com:

The novel is set in 1960s North Carolina in a small mountain town.  The story centers on Luce who is the caretaker of a rundown lodge outside of town. She has withdrawn herself from the world. However when her estranged sister is murdered she must look after her sister’s troubled young twins who have do not seem able to speak and demonstrate a knack for starting fires. When her sister’s husband, Bud, is acquitted of the murder of Luce’s sister, despite his obvious guilt, he sets out to track the twins down. In another writer’s hands this could be a fast-paced, crime-thriller but with Frazier it is a different book entirely. It is an intense character study set amongst a vivid and unforigiving landscape.

From curtisbrown.co.uk:

Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while at the same time losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insights into human nature which have made him one of the most beloved and celebrated authors in the world. Now, he evokes the rich Appalachian landscape in this brilliant portrait of a solitary young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins. 

Night Woods on Amazon.