SORROW WOOD by Raymond Atkins Book Report

Yesterday I finished reading the Kendal version of the book SORROW WOOD by Raymond L. Atkins.  It covers a time spell from the 1940s through three war to present time.  It starts off in north east Alabama near Sand Mountain, skids the Pacific during WWII, shipyards in Oregon and back to northeast Alabama.  It has a vague murder mystery in the background that doesn’t overshadow the on going sagas of the town’s head lawman.  

As witty as it is, you cannot read it without shedding tears too.

Raymond Atkins is very witty.  He has an outlook on people not too differently than Kurt Vonnegut.  He and his wife live on the banks of the Etowah River in Rome, Georgia, which most of his books are about that area.

SORROW WOOD is a very good book worth one’s time.