![]() To prove her worth, she challenges the foreman, Bilded, to a contest to see who can more accurately guess the length of a large nearby tree. ![]() At first, they don't trust this beautiful interloper in their community. Immediately upon arriving, Serena looks to assert her dominance over the men. The Pembertons own a lumber camp in the area. As a sort of insulting penance for the deed, George gives Rachel the knife used to kill her father, telling her she will receive nothing more from the Pembertons and so, she shouldn't try. Serena eggs her husband on to kill Abe, which he does, despite Abe arriving with his pregnant daughter, Rachel. Almost immediately, the two get into a conflict with local man Abe Harmon who is suspicious of the newcomers. At the beginning of the novel, newlyweds Serena and George Pemberton disembark from a train, arriving in a heavily wooded part of North Carolina. ![]() It takes place in 1930s North Carolina and became a New York Times bestseller. American author Ron Rash’s novel Serena (2008) concerns the greedy title character's attempts to stall the government from declaring her land a national park so she can log it for her timber business. ![]()
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