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‘A Land More Kind Than Home’ by Wiley Cash

By Joseph Peschel

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 05, 2012

Wiley Cash’s first novel, “A Land More Kind Than Home,’’ is woven together from the narratives of three characters, 9-year-old Jess, elderly Adelaide Lyle, and Sheriff Clem Barefield, and tells the story of Jess after the mysterious death of his autistic, 13-year-old brother in the mountains around Marshall, N.C., in 1986.

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