One of the hundred books a year I read:

A family living and working a small tobacco farm in the Western North Carolina mountains struggles to deal with their hard life, made more difficult by the wife’s involvement with a fundamentalist church and its domineering minister. What the younger brother witnesses peering through a small hole in the wall of the church rends at the heart and soul of the family. A complex tale told from the points-of-view of the young boy, an elderly midwife who shepherds the children of the church and protects them from the minister, and the sheriff with his own dark past.