Author Jeffrey Lent Review

"Walking to Gatlinburg is a dazzling tour de force, a singular accomplishment that demands the reader suspend disbelief only for the very few pages required to understand there’s a grand plan, a masterful conceit, and ultimately a work of sheer overpowering genius at work here. In an age given to hyperbole, such praise is tossed about all too often and rarely truly earned. Mosher has captured a world, an era or epoch of extraordinary circumstances, the Civil War, in a page-turning fashion that reveals the utter madness of violence, as well as a panoply of characters that reflect all manner of attitudes toward that singular event. Mosher’s keen insights into humanity as well as his love and knowledge of the natural world have perhaps never before been so deeply realized. The highest compliment to be paid- upon finishing Walking to Gatlinburg, my first response was verbal and unprintable, my second, the overwhelming urge to begin the book again. Howard Frank Mosher has been compared to many writers but in fact he’s the genuine article, a writer beyond compare. Perhaps he’s post-modern America’s Mark Twain- if so, Walking to Gatlinburg is his Huckleberry Finn." - Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall and After You've Gone