![]() I tend to like novels with other novels embedded within. ![]() It is also very much a novel about sorrow and loss. A small word of warning here: don’t make too quick an assumption about who the title refers to. I think some of Langan’s best writing is in the descriptions of fishing. Need I say it is also a novel about fishing and fishermen? “Ashokan” apparently comes from and Indian word meaning “place of fish.” The details of fishing will enchant the fisherman among you but will not bore anyone with little interest in the sport. (One of the joys of the books is how well Langan controls those voices and the information they provide so that it is complicated but easy to follow and makes artistic sense.) The long flashback, which takes up probably half the book, is set primarily at the time of construction of the Ashokan Reservoir in the second decade of the last century, but voices heard telling that tale take it further back in time as well as forward. The framing story is set in the late 1900s but is narrated from a point of view even closer to now. ![]() ![]() The region here is the Catskill Mountains in New York, particularly the area around the Ashokan Reservoir. ![]()
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