A Land More Kind Than Home: Library Edition

from DeltaQueen50

Every once in awhile a book comes along that seems to grab hold of the reader's emotions. For me, A Land More Kind That Home by Wiley Cash was one of those kind of books. This is a rather grim story, told in beautiful prose, about how a preacher turns a small town congregation into a cult of dark...

from msf59

"Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me I shall die. I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more larg...

from EBT1002

"And the Lord knows that when people don't get what they need they take what they can find..." and if this doesn't lead to heartbreak, I don't know what does. Told from the perspectives of 9-year-old Jess Hall, elderly midwife Adelaide Lyle, and Madison County sheriff Clem Barefield, this compuls...

from katiekrug

In this, his debut novel, Wiley Cash captures the rhythms of life, the hardscrabble nature of survival, and the heartbreak of loss in Appalachia. The mountains and hollers of western North Carolina are as much a character as Jess, his brother Stump, wise old Adelaide, and Clem, the sheriff. Popul...

from lauralkeet

Jess and his brother Christopher (nicknamed Stump) live in a rural North Carolina town dominated by a fundamentalist pastor with a shady past. Early on, Jess and Stump see something they shouldn't, with swift and disastrous consequences. The rest of the story is told through three narrative voice...