Contemporary Book Club -- The Caretaker by Ron Rash

The Caretaker by Ron Rash

It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, is the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the cemetery’s unusual happenings rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is drafted for the Korean War, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob’s wife, Naomi, as well.