Salvage This World

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be the region's savior. (Laird Hunt, National Book Award-nominated author of Zorrie and Neverhome ) There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.   In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where