Review of Tony Earley's "The Blue Star"
by Rob Neufeld for the Asheville Citizen-Times
You can tell by Tony Earley’s book titles—“Jim the Boy,” his greatly acclaimed first novel, and “The Blue Star,” his recent sequel—that his stories radiate a warm glow. Though plenty of sad things happen in Aliceville, a Rutherfordton-like burg of the emerging New South, everyone is loved. This tends to temper…