Review of Tim Young’s Poisoned Soil…

(Tim Young, Poisoned Soil, Harmony Publishing, 2012, ASIN B009EAV6VY)

Tim Young’s novel Poisoned Soil reminds me of some of Baldacci’s home-spun Appalachian thrillers. It’s a story about greed, guilt, desperate people, and ethnic justice. It’s a simple story that deals with complex issues.

The prose also seems to be an all-American version of magical realism, that Garcia Marquez / Isabel Allende technique of making reality magical and magic real. (Toni Morrison is another American author using...