" Click here to read a chapter from the book The mountain is a lonely
place. Welcome to Sourwood, a small Kentucky town inhabited by men and
women unique and yet eerily familiar. Among its joyful and tragic
citizens we meet the crafty, spirited Caleb and his curious younger
brother; Pearl, a suspected witch, and her sheltered daughter, Thanie;
superstitious Eli; and the doomed orphan Girty. In Sourwood, the
mountain is both a keeper of secrets and an imposing, isolating
presence, shaping the liv