For another, she’s rumored to carry the cove’s malevolent spirit with her. For one thing, she has a large birthmark that’s thought to mark her as a witch.
The townsfolk of nearby Mars Hill steer clear of the cove, and they avoid Laurel too. Ron Rash invests this dark, forlorn place with such spooky animus that his new novel, “The Cove,” ought to treat “Cove” as a proper noun. Laurel’s mother spoke of this setting as a shadow land and “claimed there wasn’t a gloamier place in the whole Blue Ridge.” She died young, as if to prove it. The first white family to settle there died of smallpox. The backwoods North Carolina cove where Laurel Shelton lives was cursed long before the Sheltons got there.
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