Bloodroot - Tapa blanda

Winner of the 1999-2000 AWP/Thomas Dunne Books Award, BLOODROOT takes its cue from a true event: in 1936, in a small town near Charlottesville, Virginia, an aging black caretaker and his sister shot dead a white sheriff. The novel explores the circumstances leading up to the violent standoff as seen through the eyes of Elsa, a young county employee fresh out of school, and those of Wesley, the fifty-year-old caretaker of a vanished family's estate who is haunted by past concessions and his sister's attachment to the land. When Wesley stands in the way of a proposed turpentine plant by refusing the county's purchase offer, both he and Elsa find themselves moving toward an end neither wants to reach.

Aaron Roy Even was raised in Herndon, Virginia. In 1995, he received an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Virginia, where he studied under a Henry Hoyns Fellowship. This is his first novel.