Friday, December 20, 2013

The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden

Rearden is one of those breakaway talents that hits the ball out of the park the first time hit picks up a bat.  It builds in tension as the story makes it way through the bleakness of a post-epidemic arctic, discovering different facets of humanity along the way.

Like some of Steinbeck's best novels, it forces us to explore why we are who we are in the greater context of survival.  The best part, this isn't some guy from Los Angeles making up what it would be like to be strolling through rural Alaska.

It's real, it's raw, it's authentic and meaningful.  It stays with you.  It has you thinking about the characters months after you set the book down, or, more likely, hand it off to someone else.



Read more about Don Readen here.

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