Where the Flowers Bloomed

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Praise for WHERE THE FLOWERS BLOOMED

". . . a page-turning sequel to Curing Time, his breakout novel, and picks up the story of Hume Rankin and his family in North Carolina, particularly the idealistic Thomas, in this titillating tale of southern mystery, murder, and manners, proving there is always a cost to going home.

Swink firmly lodges himself in the tradition of southern fiction, where nothing is simple, the land is dusty and mud-caked, and issues of race have been and continue to be ever-present, but this tale is also about how family is what matters most, though sometimes even this may make you pay the highest price."

-Steve Cushman, author of Portisville and How Birds Fly

"In this suspenseful outcry for racial justice, Tim Swink brings shamanism to bear on the old Southern plague of the sins of the fathers staining the generations. Where the Flowers Bloomed offers an ambitious take on the genealogical novel and challenges Thomas Wolfe's declaration that you can't go home again. Swink's cross-cutting technique achieves cinematic impact, as bigotry and bloodletting succumb to reconciliation."

-Michael Gaspeny, author of A Postcard from the Delta and The Tyranny of Questions

A former trial attorney's investigator for twenty years, Tim Swink has returned to his first love: writing. Tim was also the Managing Editor at a small newspaper near Pinehurst, North Carolina: has worked for USA Today, the Greensboro News and Record and Tarheel Magazine: and is currently a contributing writer for O.Henry Magazine. "Where the Flowers Bloomed" is a sequel to "Curing Time." His third novel, "Madd Inlet," is set in Sunset Beach, North Carolina and he is currently working on a fourth novel," East of the Divide." Tim and his artist wife reside in Greensboro, North Carolina.