{"product_id":"the-secret-wisdom-of-the-earth","title":"The Secret Wisdom of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eA marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down.  John GrishamA pageturner.  New York Times Book ReviewFor readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young mans view of human cruelty and compassion.After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteenyearold Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevins grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeledpaint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a halfwild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods.The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevins grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the company and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Scotton, Christopher \/ paperback","offer_id":47841886568693,"sku":"DADAX1455551910","price":17.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/51abjbGzf1L.jpg?v=1773766154","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-secret-wisdom-of-the-earth","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}