@article{694556,
      recid = {694556},
      author = {Rash, Ron,},
      title = {The world made straight : a novel /},
      publisher = {Picador,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {289 p. ;},
      year = {2006},
      note = {In an Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a  Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to  escape the violence that would bind him to the past. Travis  Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders onto a  neighbor's property in the woods, discovers a crop of  marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and  steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours of passing  in and out of consciousness, Travis is discovered by  Carlton Toomey, the wise and vicious farmer who set the  trap to protect his plants, and Travis's confrontation with  the subtle evils within his rural world has begun. Before  long, Travis has moved out of his parents' home to live  with Leonard Shuler, a one-time schoolteacher who lost his  job and custody of his daughter years ago, when he was  framed by a vindictive student. Now Leonard lives with his  dogs and his sometime girlfriend in a run-down trailer  outside town, deals a few drugs, and studies journals from  the Civil War. Travis becomes his student, of sorts, and  the fate of these two outsiders becomes increasingly  entwined as the community's terrible past and corrupt  present bear down on each of them from every direction,  leading to a violent reckoning-not only with Carlton, but  with the legacy of the Civil War massacre that, even after  a century, continues to divide an Appalachian community.  Vivid, harrowing, yet ultimately hopeful, The World Made  Straight offers a powerful exploration of the painful  conflict between the bonds of home and the desire for  independence.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694556},
}