Text publishes a number of perfect book club reads. These are the stories that will engage you, challenge your thinking and prompt interesting debate. To help get the conversation flowing, download our reading group guides for your next book club meeting.
Bookclub book of the month
Ron Rash’s The Cove is a dark literary romance, set in the heart of the Appalachian mountains during World War I. Siblings Laurel and Hank Shelton live in the cove, fruitless farmland nestled in perpetual shadow, land locals say is cursed. After returning home from the war, Hank prepares to marry and start a new life elsewhere, leaving Laurel to live alone in the dark and lonely cove. Laurel’s fate is altered forever when she discovers an injured man on their land. The stranger slowly heals and insinuates himself in to life in the cove—bringing Laurel happiness, even love.
But when Laurel stumbles on the stranger’s true identity, she realises they are in real danger, beyond any kind of mythical curse. And the ramifications are breathtaking. Will she overcome the oppressive history of this place many consider cursed?
The Cove is a wonderfully textured story that will appeal to both male and female readers and is bound to prompt discussion.
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