For readers who cherish the heartfelt spirit of Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows, Where the Sycamores Turn White: A Boyhood in the Ozarks is a moving story of hardship, loyalty, and the fierce love between a boy and the land that raised him.
In the rugged Ozark country, twelve-year-old Eli Bower knows what it means to want something badly and to work for it with all the strength in his bones. After a brutal flood leaves behind a half-wild mule colt tangled in the river roots, Eli pulls the trembling creature to safety and names him Ghost. But saving the colt is only the beginning. Across the bend lies a neglected orchard, broken by weather, nearly forgotten by the world, and tied to a future Eli can feel slipping away from his family.
As seasons turn and trouble closes in, Eli begins to understand that growing up is not about dreaming grand dreams alone. It is about learning what can be saved, what must be endured, and how love sometimes asks more of a body than he ever thought he could give.
Rich with mountain life, weather-worn beauty, family struggle, and the deep ache of boyhood devotion, Where the Sycamores Turn White: A Boyhood in the Ozarks is a tender and powerful novel about courage, loss, and the stubborn hope that can still bloom in broken ground.
A story of the river, the orchard, and the boy determined to hold on before everything he loves is carried away.
