"Nightwoods" Written By Charles Frazier

Another winner of a story by Charles Frazier that is completely different from his first book, Cold Mountain. This excellent story about two children that were very strange and were eventually turned over to Luce by the state to raise in the best way she could although Luce had no experience in raising children. The children, Dolores and Frank, were not normal young kids, not wishing to communicate with others verbally but if there was a way to get into trouble they were very able to "communicate" by doing that. Their mother had been murdered and there was no one else to raise them and keep them together. Luce was up for the challenge even though she had much to learn about almost everything, actions and education of children among those needs. She didn't own the lodge that she and the children moved in to. It was in general disrepair after past years of being a fancy lodging place for tourists. But now the three of them used mostly the first floor very seldom going upstairs
to investigate what was up there. Luce had to be careful that the kids didn't go up there and get into trouble such as starting a fire, which they loved to do with most anything. Maddie lived nearby and they would sometimes walk to her house and visit, not knowing what Maddie would be doing or in what mood she might be on any visit.Bud was a bad man with a criminal record and a wicked history of prison and hurting or killing people and stealing most anything. Bud eventually married Luce's sister, Lily, which was a bad match for both of them and the children, who were fathered by another man. Bud could not stay out of trouble in the marriage and in the area. He loved to beat the kids. Luce was happy when Bud was away from the area either traveling or in prison. Bud cleaned out Luce's bank account and drove off robbing every person and business he came across. Luce did all she could to start the kid's education, teaching them everything she knew in her limited life. They would
learn when they wanted to. Stubblefield was a local man who had inherited a decent size area of land and some buildings but he owed so much that he would have to rid himself of some of the inheritance.Lit was the local law. He gave Stubblefield instructions how to get to his land and what was on much of it. As he traveled he found Luce and the children in a home that was part of his inheritance. The distance between them finally became closer and they realized that they had known each other in school some years ago. Stubblefield found himself coming around to see them quite often until finally he would take walks with them and take them for a ride. Nothing serious between them occurred. Lit was buying "uppers" from Bud to keep himself awake and steady since he was getting older and felt he needed that stimulation. Meanwhile, without Luce realizing it, she and Stubblefield were getting chummy without the intimacy, even though he wished it would get to that point.I am not goi
ng to go any farther into the book, as I don't want to spoil the entire great story left in the book. You will enjoy the authors descriptive wording of the area, the characters, the events, nature, all of which combined with the story keep the reader very involved.

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