Cave Mountain: a Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks

by Benjamin Hale

Harper Collins Publishers

    Benjamin Hale covers a great deal of ground - beginning with a missing child, segueing to a Christian cult murdering a different child and the lives of many of those involved in both occurrences. Hale manages to keep an open mind, while remaining a skeptic and allowing the people he's showing us to be themselves, in all their complexities. He writes beautifully of these people and the countryside, without ever making less of them than they so obviously are.

   If you are very religious, or bothered by profanities, you may find this a bit difficult. 

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