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 freedom and...</p>