Serena

A <em>New York Times</em><strong> </strong><strong>bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist <em>Serena </em>by award-winning author Ron Rash is </strong><strong>masterfully written...</strong>sprawling engrossing and--from time to time--nightmarish (<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>); a remarkable novel that recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy (<em>The New Yorker</em>). Rash's chilling gothic tale of greed corruption and revenge set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement was named a Best Book of the Year by more than a dozen national publications including the <em>New York Times Washington Post San Francisco Chronicle Chicago Tribune </em><em>and Miami Herald. Serena </em><em>is brilliant contemporary fiction that exquisitely balances beauty and violence passion and rage cruelty and love.</em>