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Render Unto the Valley
A Novel
By Rose Senehi
KIM Publications
978-0-615-49995-6
$15.95 paperback
6 x 9
296 pages
January 2012
Fiction
Karen Godwell isn’t as much ashamed of her mountain heritage as of what she once had to do to preserve it.
Karen reinvents herself at college and doesn’t look back until her clan’s historic farm is threatened. The gutsy curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art returns to the mountains only to come face to face with who she was and what she did.
Descendants of the early settlers still have a grip on the farmlands deep in the folds of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, but the ground is shifting beneath their feet. Cousin Bruce, the town historian, sees life through the family’s colorful 200-year past; Tom Gibbons, a local conservationist, keeps one eye on the mountains and the other on Karen; Karen’s nine-year-old daughter, Hali, is in the throes of the mission her dying father sent her on; and Karen is hiding the ugly secret that drove her away.
As she wrestles her dangerously cunning brother for the farm, Karen straddles the divide between the staunchly independent mountain culture she comes from and the sophisticated world she has become a part of. |
Reviews
“Render Unto the Valley is a many-stranded tale of three generations of a star-crossed family struggling to mend itself and preserve something of its rightful heritage. In the midst of this tempestuous story stands Travis Whitfield, as stony-hearted a bad hat as you are ever likely to meet. But the female forces arrayed against him are formidable. Are they strong enough to prevail? Read and you’ll find out. But be warned: It’s a breathless ride.”
—Fred Chappell, North Carolina poet laureate emeritus and author of Ancestors and Others
Press
From Saving Land, Spring 2012
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Characters based on people active in conserving the land, January 8, 2012, Hendersonville Times by Beth Beasley
Known for highlighting issues specific to communities in the Southern Blue Ridge, local author Rose Senehi continues her trend with a novel about threatened farmland in the Hickory Nut Gorge.
"Render Unto the Valley," the third stand-alone novel in her Southern Blue Ridge Series, will be spotlighted at a Books & Bites luncheon event at Lake Lure Inn on Jan. 19. (Read more.) |
February 2, 2012—Reporter turns to the business of novels
Relish By: Kathy Norcross Watts
"Novelist Rose Senehi's career path seems to have come full circle: from business reporting to opening mall sites to writing novels, and she says the environmental themes in her novels are no coincidence."
Links
Also by Rose Senehi:
The Wind in the Woods (2010)
Visit Rose Senehi's web sites at www.rosesenehi.com and www.hickorynut-gorge.com.
Visit Rose Senehi on her Facebook page.
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