By Wiley Cash
Jess Hall is a curious young boy growing up in a small North Carolina town. He is protective of his older brother Christopher, a mute affectionately nicknamed Stump. He is in awe of his father who is capable of any task needed at his family’s tobacco farm. And he is very curious about what happens inside the church his mother attends. He is equally curious about what he sees and hears taking place in his parent’s bedroom on a summer afternoon while his father is away.
What he witnesses launches Jess and his brother into a haunting tale of secrecy, brutal death and ultimately courage. The story is told by three narrators –Jess; Miss Lyle, church member and town midwife; and Clem Barefield, the county sheriff whose painful past is forever linked to the Hall family. In this debut novel, Cash masterfully employs these three characters as individual threads who, chapter by chapter, weave this intriguing story into a rich fabric of literary beauty.
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