Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
So many novels and movies end with whoever needs to be saved, saved. The bad guys are defeated. The challenge accepted and conquered. The ending gives us closure and the hope that everything will be okay, like a more grownup “happily ever after.” Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist, a moving and melancholy novel, asks what happens if the person in need of saving cannot be saved despite the best efforts of the would-be savior...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.