A land more kind than home: a novel

✍ Scribed by Wiley Cash

• Book ID: 100054058
• Publisher: HarperCollins;William Morrow
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 159 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1620907860

✦ Synopsis

A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town

For a curious boy like Jess Hall, growing up in Marshall means trouble when your mother catches you spying on grown-ups. Adventurous and precocious, Jess is enormously protective of his older brother, Christopher, a mute whom everyone calls Stump. Though their mother has warned them not to snoop, Stump can' t help sneaking a look at something he' s not supposed to--an act that will have catastrophic repercussions, shattering both his world and Jess' s. It' s a wrenching event that thrusts Jess into an adulthood for which he' s not prepared. While there is much about the world that still confuses him, he now knows that a new understanding can bring not only a growing danger and evil--but also the possibility of...