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REVIEWING TODAY: A RISING TIDE OF PEOPLE SWEPT AWAY BY SCOTT ARCHER JONES
In his book A Rising Tide of People Swept Away, author Scott Archer Jones offers up a neighborhood of interesting characters come together by personal history, need, and circumstance to demonstrate the complex dynamics that occur between individuals and groups when caught up in a sudden crisis. A contemporary New Mexico town offers the unique setting for this in-depth exploration, where the center of focus is a young boy of eight or nine or ten who becomes the unintended project of an unlikely community of somewhat eccentric but very recognizable people. Individual compassion for GMR, the name by which the boy is called, attends his voluntary homeless status as he seeks survival from a physically abusive father and a morally corrupt mother. On top of this, the self-formed rescue group that spontaneously arises – comprised of local shop owners and residents who often gather at RIP’s, the community bar and informal meeting place – must face the imminent dissolution of their odd but cohesive neighborhood due to the new bridge construction destined to dislocate them all.
In A Rising Tide of People Swept Away, Scott Archer introduces us to his fascinating and realistic characters – as well as a descriptively precise evocation of place and repetitive local rites – with an accomplished author’s skill at providing stark credibility of circumstance, thoroughly believable dialogue, and acutely intimate personal relationships. The reader becomes the unseen character in this story, attending RIP’s come-togethers as a spectator, but also sharing as would a ghost the private thoughts and acts of lonely people in their homes and sanctuaries. In all, this literary neighborhood of folks speaks directly to the heart, and though not everything ends rosy, one is left feeling rather good about himself and optimistic that one lone soul at least may have found a fortunate escape.
Joel R. Dennstedt – Reviewer
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