THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT
By Ron Rash
The World Made Straight is the fourth Ron Rash novel I have read, and like the others, I rated it 5 stars. Mr. Rash’s writing is consistently superb, his words perfect in their ability to evoke images and feeling. There is a heavy layer of darkness in his novels, but his writing makes the darkness beautiful and seductive, not in a way that glorifies the bad, but in a way that shows how spare is the line between happiness and pain, between goodness and evil. I’m sure I’ll be reading the rest of Ron Rash’s works, and I look forward to it.
Reviewed July 2017
House of Black and Blue 