Bloodroot Author:AAron Roy Even Winner of the 1999-2000 AWP/Thomas Dunne Books Award — Aaron Ron Even's startling, imagistic debut takes it's cue from a true event. In 1936, in a small town near Charlottesville, Virginia an aging black caretaker and his sister shot dead a white sheriff acting on orders to turn them off their land. In BLOODROOT, Even explores the circumstances ... more »leading up to this violent standoff and the tragedy that followed as seen through the eyes of Elsa, a young county employee fresh out of school and filled with aspiration and illusion, and those of Welley, the 50-year old caretaker of a vanished family's estate.« less