Title: Disturbing subject matter handled with literary grace
Product review: Katherine Martin's Night Riding is reminisent of the work of Toni Morrison with prose that reads like poetry, concise, intense and allusively alive. Listen to this: "She stretched her mouth into a smile that didn't get to her eyes." I loved that. Immediately, the reader knows something is profoundly up with Miss Mary Faith Hammond. Her depiction of the relationship between the mother, Ada Ruth and her youngest daughter, Prin, brought me to tears. My only longing was to feel more a part of the actual night riding. I wanted to be right there with Prin, but wasn't. Perhaps the tension of the other characters caught me up in its distress. I can only say the way it is handled at the end was beautiful. I finally put the book down at 2 a.m., content and wishing for a sequel.
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