from the back cover:
The Powell brothers, Muir and Moody, are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams and not the slightest idea what to do about them. Moody, the older and wilder brother - embittered by the death of his father, by years of fighting his mother, any by his jealousy of Muir's privileged place in the family - takes to moonshine and gambling, and turns his anger on his brother. Muir escapes, hoping to find something - an occupation, a calling - to match his ambition.

Through it all their mother, Ginny, tries to steet her boys right all the while remembering her own losses; her husband, her youth, and the fiery sense of God that once ordered her world.

When Muir discovers his purpose in life, the consequences are far-reaching and irrevocable; a community threatens to tear itself apart, and his family is changed forever. All that's left in the aftermath are the memories of a new, wiser man.

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