Natalie Goldberg makes this comment about southern writers: “Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the...

“Burnt Mountain” is the story of Thayer Wentworth, who was adored by her father and grandmother, but who never quite lived up to her mother’s expectations. She spent her summers at Camp Sherwood Forest where she felt at home. It was there on Burnt Mountain...