The Right Side

by Christopher Tilghman

Unknown Binding

About the author

Christopher Tilghman is the author of two short-story collections, In a Father’s Place, and The Way People Run, and three novels, The Right-Hand Shore, Mason’s Retreat and Roads of the Heart. Currently the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, he and his wife, the writer Caroline Preston, live in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Reviews

[Evette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tilghman creates a complex story of a Post-Civil War rural black community and the wealthy white family with whom it is entangled. His evocation of a large farm on the Maryland Eastern Shore with its many people and evolving relationships engaged me on multiple levels. The characters are diverse and extremely interesting, their fates varied. Beautifully written, and intricately structured to maintain interest.

(My one complaint is a main character's obsession with growing and breeding peaches--much more than I could find interesting.)

[David T]

He writes beautifully. He puts you in the characters frame of time and scene.