Serena by Ron Rash.
In 1929, George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the North Carolina mountains to build a timber empire. Ron Rash places their ambitions within a landscape whose future is bound to their pursuit of wealth.
Read it for the relationship between possession and destruction. The novel invites a discussion of what people are willing to consume when success becomes the measure of every decision.
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