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Ron Rash, born in Chester, South Carolina and raised in North Carolina, has deeply explored the lives of people in the Appalachian region of North Carolina. He has created a tough and sometimes chilling portrait of those downtrodden people.

Rashs writing also brings to life the harsh yet exceptionally beautiful and hopeful landscape of the region, which is often ravaged by poverty, drugs, and sadness. As a poet, his prose is eloquent and lyrical, softening the sharp themes he often explores in his stories.

Beginning with the great depression, when many people in the area were starving due to food shortages, one man suspects that someone is stealing his eggs, and sets a trap in a truly heart-wrenching scene, depicting the truth of poverty, pride, and family romance of a harsh childhood. This sets the tone for the whole book.

The stories cover a span of about 150 years, from the end of the Civil War to modern times. Whether it is a story about young people without work, future, or direction and their addiction, desire, and corruption in "One Foot in Eden"; a story about a woman who lost her child and seeks answers of guilt and regret in "Serena"; a story of love and passion, loneliness and arson in "Burning Bright"; or a story about war and memory, and facing degradation and corruption with dignity in "The Return"; or about loss and facing our own era and the forgotten in "Into the Gorge"; or about obsession and madness in "The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth"; or the only purely historical novel about the Lincoln supporter during the Civil War, "The World Made Straight".

Despite the variety of stories, the important point is that the stories naturally maintain coherence. The primitive and organic connections between each story unite them with a strong, organic inner force. Appalachia is one of the poorest regions in the United States. Rashs work reflects the fragile relationship between the people in this region and the land beneath their feet. Despite the surface uniqueness and diversity, each story repeatedly hits the same theme, ensuring the gripping consistency of the series. In the end, you will find that the book, although divided into two parts-"Those Who Stayed" and "Those Who Left"-fate does not seem to depart-the Civil War left deep scars in the Appalachian Mountains, which is heart-wrenching, crazy, and chilling. But fortunately, the world he depicts is a difficult world, but the stories themselves are not always bleak. Rash must have wanted to provide a little compassion and hope through extraordinary characters with extraordinary strength and perseverance.