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A review by ja3m3
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
4.0
This superbly written book captures life in the hills and hollers of North Carolina almost effortlessly. From the detailed descriptions of the mountains to the cadence of the language Cash tells the tragic story about what happens when fanaticism, fear, and family collide.
A Land More Kind than Home centers on the events of one evening when an autistic child dies mysteriously at a worship service presided by a con-artist, snake-handling preacher. The story is narrated by three different people: Adelaide Lyle – an elderly church member who doesn’t trust Pastor Chambliss and has taken the children away from the services, Jess Hall – the younger brother of the child who dies who knows things that he doesn’t understand, and Sheriff Clem Barefield – who must discover the truth no matter the cost or consequence.
I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it. A book filled with guns,lust,religion, whiskey, and snakes isn’t a bad way to spend a weekend.
A Land More Kind than Home centers on the events of one evening when an autistic child dies mysteriously at a worship service presided by a con-artist, snake-handling preacher. The story is narrated by three different people: Adelaide Lyle – an elderly church member who doesn’t trust Pastor Chambliss and has taken the children away from the services, Jess Hall – the younger brother of the child who dies who knows things that he doesn’t understand, and Sheriff Clem Barefield – who must discover the truth no matter the cost or consequence.
I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it. A book filled with guns,lust,religion, whiskey, and snakes isn’t a bad way to spend a weekend.