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Guilt In Rash's Serena

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Rash’s novel Serena is known as his 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times best-selling novel. It is a gothic tale of greed, corruption, jealousy, obsession, desperation, mental illness and murder; narrating the story of the newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton who arrive in North Carolina in 1929 to create a timber empire. Living further in the mountains, Serena shows herself to be the equal of any worker in the timber camp. Knowing previously that George has an illegitimate child from Rachel Harmon (a sixteen-year-old girl who used to work in the camp) does not affect Serena’s self-confidence or her trust towards her husband. Instead, they ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of their favor including Mr. Buchanan
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