鈥淐old Mountain鈥 author Charles Frazier returns to the mountains of North Carolina 鈥 this time in the 1960s 鈥 in Nightwoods (Crown Publishing, 288 pp.) to tell the story of a young woman charged with caring for her murdered sister鈥檚 children. Monitor books editor Marjorie Kehe wrote that 鈥渢o read this book is to disappear deep into a meticulously re-created landscape and world that 鈥 sadly 鈥 may now have gone silent.鈥 (CSMonitor.com, 10/21/11)