Walking to Gatlinburg

Praise for Walking to Gatlinburg An Indie Next Notable Pick Mosher is a rare storyteller, able to both instruct and entertain, and he brings all his talents to this unforgettable and unique novel. - BookPage A Civil War odyssey in the tradition of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Robert Olmstead's Coal Black Horse, Mosher's latest, about a Vermont teenager's harrowing journey south to find his missing-in-action brother, is old-fashioned in the best sense of the word....The story of Morgan's rite-of-passage through an American arcadia despoiled by war and slavery is an engrossing tale with mass appeal.- Publisher's Weekly We are in the hands of a skilled storyteller, and every word matters. A captivating story, and one that cries for a sequel. - Kirkus, starred review [A] haunting and hallucinatory novel....Historical realism this isn't but it is a violent, often puzzling picaresque with an invigorating take on the Underground Railroad and an unsettling vision of an America despoiled by the War between the States. - Booklist Praise for Howard Frank Mosher Mosher is an old-fashioned writer, a storyteller of the first order; he has written a page-turner in the best sense of the word. - Boston Globe A combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison. - Los Angeles Times Mosher calls to mind the best of Mark Twain - mischievous, touching, and very funny. - Carl Hiaasen Rollicking, boisterous, sprawling, and highly entertaining. -Harper's Magazine Revives the tall tale with remarkable grace and intelligence ... delightful. - Washington Post Mosher is a gifted storyteller with a solid sense of place and history. - Cleveland Plain Dealer One of our very best writers ... Mosher offers us a landscape, both natural and human, worth knowing, worth believing in. - Richard Russo From the Hardcover edition.