by Michael McDowell
"The War" is the fourth book of six in Michael McDowell's Southern Gothic saga "Blackwater".This installment takes the Caskey family through WWII and sees several more changes to the composition of the extended family and the family's lumber business.This one felt more emotional to me than the previ...
What I find most refreshing about this amazing work of Southern Gothic is McDowell's ability to work within such an insular microcosm as a small Alabama town within this time frame, with a cast of characters that, if one were to go out on a limb, could be called "stereotypical", yet manages, with a ...
Blackwater is a series that just keeps getting better and better, and I enjoyed this installment of the series/long serial novel even more than its predecessors. ***************************************Here is the Goodreads description:Wartime in Perdido jolted the sleepy little Alabama town as new p...