{"product_id":"cave-mountain-a-disappearance-and-a-reckoning-in-the-ozarks-isbn-9780063398122","title":"Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The damndest mixing of true crime, memoir, and maybe (?) ghost story I’ve ever read. The original \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e article gave me the shivers, and this deeper dive is going to have me looking over my shoulder on every hike. Unputdownable.\" — Patton Oswalt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the immediacy and extraordinary feeling for people and place of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Banner of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Say Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, a compelling true crime story about two young girls who went missing in the same Arkansas woods twenty-three years apart and the strange circumstances connecting them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story begins in 2001 on top of Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks. A six-year-old girl named Haley—Benjamin Hale’s cousin—got lost on a mountain trail, prompting what was at the time the largest search and rescue mission in the state’s history. Her disappearance—and her account, after she was found, of the “imaginary friend” she met in the woods—would eventually become connected to another story that took place in the same wilderness more than twenty years earlier: a dark and bizarre story of a cult, brainwashing, murder, and the apocalyptic visions of a teenage prophet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnriched by Benjamin Hale’s own family history and the lore of the Arkansas Ozarks, \u003ci\u003eCave Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping story about nature and survival, religion and skepticism, and good and evil. At its center are two young girls, years apart, both in danger in the verdant wilds of northern Arkansas.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"What begins as intriguing true-crime tales shifts into a psychological deconstruction and a philosophical journey attempting to understand the power that religion—specifically Christianity—possesses to influence one’s perception of themselves and reality . . . . Readers looking for a story thick with deeper ruminations underneath an intriguing true-crime narrative will be satisfied.” ⎯ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Hale's] Arkansas roots make him the perfect narrator for this riveting, eye-popping tale . . . . Like a savvy tour guide, he spouts detail-rich prose brimming with intriguing asides, twists, turns and reflections, giving readers up-close-and-personal insights along with thoughtful analysis of personalities and events . . . . Hale’s efforts to deeply engage with his subjects bring to mind Beth Macy’s empathetic, probing\u003ci\u003e Paper Girl . . . . Cave Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate, deeply original, true crime narrative reminiscent of Caroline Fraser’s \u003ci\u003eMurderland\u003c\/i\u003e.\"⎯  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBookPage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A book of rabbit holes: fascinating, maddening, maundering, and often electrifying . . . . Goose pimples become hard to suppress.\" ⎯ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarden \u0026amp; Gun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An engrossing and rigorous account of a haunting crime.\" - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A story of true crime that evokes the idea of good and evil both seen and believed.” - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like all great books, Benjamin Hale’s \u003ci\u003eCave Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is impossible to pigeonhole. It is a thriller full of suspense and surprises and compulsive page-turning. It is a rich cultural history of the Arkansas Ozarks and what it is like to inhabit one of the most remote regions of the country, the clash of isolation and violence in the disappearance of two girls. It is beautifully written and reported—lyrical, sensitive, always eloquent.” — \u003cb\u003eBuzz Bissinger, author of \u003ci\u003eFriday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The damndest mixing of true crime, memoir, and maybe (?) ghost story I’ve ever read. The original \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e article gave me the shivers, and this deeper dive is going to have me looking over my shoulder on every hike. Unputdownable.\" \u003cb\u003e— Patton Oswalt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCave Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e holds an extraordinary story, conveyed and explored by Benjamin Hale with tremendous breadth of perception, immense eloquence, and equal measures of perspective and compassion.” — \u003cb\u003eJane Hirshfield, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Asking: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A big hearted, deeply learned work of literary Southern crime. Benjamin Hale goes into the woods looking for a body and leaves with something like grace.” — \u003cb\u003eMax Marshall, author of\u003ci\u003e Among the Bros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\u003c\/i\u003e is an absolute pleasure. . . . [It] announces that Benjamin Hale is himself a fully evolved as a writer, taking on big themes, intent on fitting the world into his work.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, unruly brute of a book . . . funny, sad and shocking . . . extraordinary intellectual range.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brave and visionary work of genius . . . a noisy, audacious, and promising debut.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Bruno Littlemore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48587988009189,"sku":"NP9780063398122","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063398122.jpg?v=1773959937","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cave-mountain-a-disappearance-and-a-reckoning-in-the-ozarks-isbn-9780063398122","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}