18th September, 2025 in Recommended Reads

The Great Meadows by Christopher Walsh

“…my mind drifted through all the years I’d spent thinking I was unencumbered, and that it was the lack of encumbrance that made me free. But that wasn’t true. I was neither free nor unencumbered. I was uncommitted. And it was that lack of commitment, that lack of a will to sacrifice, that kept me alone.” The novel, The Great Meadows, by Christopher Walsh, throws us into the mystery of a young man, Moussa Daib’s, novel search for purpose and unexpected death that wraps up the protagonist, Levi Motley, following his simple, though considerate, actions. As Levi seeks truth beyond false appearances and admissions, he is confronted with the hard-fought secrets of those that mean to keep them that way through the lens of a small-town Kentucky landscape. The Great Meadows forces those that seek truth into self-reflection as to what lies they may continue to tell themselves.