Archive for November 17, 2010
THE WAKE OF FORGIVENESS by Bruce Machart
Family bonds, particularly between fathers and sons, and mothers and sons, are explored with great sorrow and depth in this elegiac and epic tale of the Skala family, hard-working Czech farmers in Lavaca County. In the fertile flat lands of South Texas, in the fictional town of Dalton, 1895, Karel Skala is the fourth son born to Vaclav and Klara, and the one that results in Klara’s death. Vaclav’s pain shuts him down, and he forsakes holding his son.
November 17, 2010
Tags: 1920s, 19th-Century, Family Matters, Ranch Life, Wild West Posted in: Debut Novel, Family Matters, Fatherhood, Reading Guide, Texas, Wild West 
No Comments
