Category Archives: Riggs, Jack
Jack Riggs. The Fireman’s Wife. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008.
Cassie, a preacher’s daughter, grew up in the N.C. mountains and planned to go to college, but her unplanned pregnancy and subsequent marriage to Peck Johnson put an end to those dreams. Now it is fifteen years later and she … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Jackson, Mountains, Riggs, Jack
Jack Riggs. When the Finch Rises. New York: Ballantine, 2003.
The narrator of this novel, twelve-year-old Raybert Williams Jr., lives in Ellenton, a fictional North Carolina mill town in 1968. Raybert’s mother and father, each with deep problems of their own, teeter between responsible parenting and neglect, while Raybert’s best … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2003, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Riggs, Jack
