Monday, July 9, 2012

Sweet, not only in tale but in taste


If you read and loved "So B. It", then you will love "Pie" even more.  The mystery, the pie recipes, the friendships are all to be enjoyed lying under a shade tree on a hot summer day.  Sarah Weeks tells a tale that fills you with love, excitement and hope.


The title alone is intriguing and then throw in the creative name of the author and I was interested.  Then I cracked open the cover jacket and as I was scanning the book blurb, I spied a familiar name...North Carolina...and then the word "mountains".  Being that I grew up in a small town in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, I knew this was a book that I would have to try.


This is a book that will trouble and deeply sadden many a reader with its unfortunate truths to a side of America that many of us would rather forget.  The extremists...the followers...the almighty...the victims.  Wiley Cash took his knowledge of a certain religious sect and wove a powerful story that I will ponder for a long time.