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Who's Talking
A February 2013 radio interview with D.G. Martin. Chapter 16
An interview with author Courtney Miller Santo. North Carolina Public Television
An interview with DG Martin of North Carolina Bookwatch. Barnes and Noble Blog
A discussion with my grad school roommate. Ten Terrifying Questions
An interview with Australia's Booktopia. Mountain Xpress
An interview with the best indie newspaper in Asheville, NC Fiction Writers Review
An interview on the germ of the novel and the process of writing it. Book Talk Radio
Interview with Stephen Usery at the Memphis Public Library. Book Page An interview on writing about home. |
Reviews & InterviewsThe New York Times Sunday Book Review
A Land More Kind Than Home is a "mezmerizing first novel" and an "intensely felt and beautifully told story." The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Evocative and quietly chilling, this novel of trust misplaced and love gone wrong is reason to hope for more from Wiley Cash." Minneapolis Star Tribune
"It never overexplains or overjustifies, never tries to be more than a ripping good yarn, and for that reason, it succeeds at being a lot more." National Public Radio
A Land More Kind Than Home "is a thriller, but it's so beautifully written that you'll be torn about how fast to read it." The Washington Post
"Like his fellow North Carolinian Ron Rash, Cash adeptly captures the rhythms of Appalachian speech..." Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"[With] this clear-sighted, graceful debut [... Cash] adds his promising new voice to Southern fiction." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
A Land More Kind Than Home is "a beautifully written morality tale, narrated from a trinity of distinct perspectives." The Baton Rouge Advocate
"In [Carson] Chambliss, Cash has created one of the great villains of recent times." Entertainment Weekly
A Land More Kind Than Home "illuminate[s] a familiar truth of Southern lit: Many are the ways that fathers fail their sons." Richmond Times-Dispatch
"A Land More Kind Than Home is a powerfully moving debut that reads a little as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." Our State Magazine
"A town’s sordid secrets force it to spin out of control." Madison County Herald
"I've been spreading the word: read Wiley Cash." Asheville Citizen-Times
"Readers and writers will find Cash’s novel to be a great example of a literary thriller." The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast calls A Land More Kind Than Home one of the week's hottest reads. Wilmington Star News
"[A] dark tale of faith and human frailty ... Cash is a narrative poet in the manner of Thomas Wolfe or Charles Frazier." The Missourian
"With 30 pages to go, I set A Land More Kind Than Home aside because I didn’t want it to end." Kirkus Reviews
"Cash's novel resonates perfectly... An evocative work about love, faith and redemption." Shelf Awareness
"In his debut novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, Wiley Cash has written a superb story of good and evil in a small town in North Carolina." Grantland
A Land More Kind Than Home makes "the strongest case that Southern Gothic lit isn't just about spilt blood and guts, but fully realized settings and characters deeply felt." London Financial Times
Great review from Christopher Fowler in the London Financial Times. Library Journal
Library Journal gives A Land More Kind Than Home a starred review. Publishers Weekly
First full-length review of A Land More Kind Than Home. BookPage Review
"The Darkness of Small Town North Carolina" in BookPage's review. |
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