A review by liberrydude
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

4.0

Shades of that movie Sling Blade. This was a real Greek tragedy. Downright Biblical at times. I'd read Cash's second novel and really liked it so I had to read his first. This was very different and didn't have the fast pace of the second book. It starts out slow as we hear the story told by an elderly woman, than a young boy, and finally the sheriff. You know there's a terrible reckoning coming on the horizon but I was shocked at the extent of the body count. Still trying to figure out the title. Was the land really more kind than home? So much suffering in this book and it could have been prevented. Nobody spoke up and Cash doesn't have the characters feeling guilty about their silence either. Almost like it's God's will. Just another great book by an author who is a master storyteller.