Watch Orchard
by H
About This Novel
Between the two world wars, in the remote and desolate town of Red Branch, Tennessee, Marion Hilde, who was transporting bootlegging wine for profit, accidentally killed a man who hitched a ride with him and tried to rob him one night, and threw him into a pit in a roadside orchard. The orchard's old caretaker, Arthur Ownby, discovered the body and periodically cut a clump of branches over it over several years. A few years later, on another trip to transport wine, Marion's car broke down and overturned, and he was rescued by a little boy, John Wesley Ratner. Marion was John Wesley's father-killing enemy, but neither of them knew it. For John Wesley, who lost his father when he was young, Marion took on the role of his father when he was growing up and lived happily without knowing their relationship. As time goes by, this sense of happiness is inevitably eroded by death, decay, and modern civilization.
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