Say what you want about what you might read on the back of a book jacket, but The Dig by Cynan Jones popped up to the top of my TBR pile because the folks at Coffee House describe it as, “Cormac McCarthy meets Marilynne Robinson in this slo-mo collision between a badger baiter and grieving farmer in rural Wales.”

You can’t beat a comparison like that, but that’s also a hell of a lot to live up to.

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