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Conversation with Ron Rash
April 25 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash for a book talk at the Earl Scruggs Center on Thursday, April 25, at 6:00 pm. Ron will give a talk, take questions from the audience, and will be available afterwards for a book signing.
The cost for this event is $5 for Earl Scruggs Center members and $10 for non-members. The Caretaker and other books will be available to purchase at the event.
Click here to purchase tickets! – Members, please use the email code that was emailed to you or by calling 704-487-6233 for your discounted rate.
About the Author:
Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, his books have been translated into seventeen languages.
A son of Buncombe and Watauga County natives, Rash was raised in Boiling Springs, NC, and his family has lived in the southern Appalachian Mountains since the mid-1700s. He teaches at Western Carolina University.
About The Caretaker:
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023. Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash (“One of the great American authors at work today” —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love.