Angel's Rest

Angel's Rest by Davis, Charles. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780778323044.

Growing up in Virginias Allegheny Mountains, eleven-year-old Charlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angels Rest, a place his momma told him angels rested before coming down to help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boys paradise…until a shotgun blast killed Charlies father and put his mother on trial for murder. For mysterious reasons, his mother entrusts his care to an old black man named Lacy Albert Coe. Lacy tells simple stories about the good and the bad that compose lifes sweetest music. But when Hollis Thrasher, a reclusive Korean War veteran, is linked to his fathers death and Lacy is victimized by hate crimes, Charlie hears only silence. Its not until Charlie embarks on a dangerous midnight journey pitting him against his darkest fears that he finally hears his own song playing out.