Martha D. reviewed on 8/20/2009 + 36 more book reviews

Although the plot is compelling on its own, I loved the passages describing the wild mountains of North Carolina. I spent the summers of my childhood in a mountain retreat in NC, and the descriptive passages of the deserter's rugged homeland brought back memories. He longed for a homeland that was threatened by the Civil War; many of those same mountains are still there, but could be easily laid to waste by developers but for national park/forest designations.

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