Charlotte Readers Podcast

Charlotte Readers Podcast


Aaron Gwyn’s “All God’s Children” Explores the Paradoxes of the early American frontier, a Place of Enormous Liberty and Terrible Bondage

February 16, 2021

In this episode 184, guest hosted by award-winning writer Paul Kurzeja, we visit with award-winning author Aaron Gwyn, whose latest book is “All God’s Children,” an enthralling novel set on the frontier of Texas in the period before the Civil War.

The New York Times says “Gwyn’s novel is a powerful depiction of the rough realities of frontier life, of the vicious influence of racism in a place where ‘men who didn’t dare look at you in daylight might burn you alive come sundown.’”

Booklist says that “Readers will relish these unforgettable characters and this expansive view of Texas’ wild ride to joining the Union” and Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal, observes that “Gwyn has couched his meanings within a swift and skillful western, which allows them to unfold with devastating power. [ . . . ] The very people who founded the American West, this bracing novel suggests, were those most desperate to be independent from it.”

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