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