Oct 9, 2011 | Asheville Citizen-Times
Asheville's Rob Neufeld on Marlin Barton's new book, 'The Cross Garden.'
If you enjoy entering Ron Rash's mountains, Charles Frazier's woods and Dorothy Allison's backwoods, you'll be glad to encounter the riverine territory in Alabama where author Marlin Barton sets "The Cross Garden," a novel with crime at its heart.
Stories from a small town: Author draws inspiration from myriad sources
The story is a dark one, car ried by secrets, revenge and re demption down a slow-moving river, through deep woods and traffic-sparse streets in small-town rural west Alabama.
After tornadoes, rural disaster area faces relief challenges
On a beautiful late afternoon in early May, Dedrick Benison and Michael Calvin are quietly surveying the house that came crashing down around them just a week before.