The mountain breeze runs through her veins as well as the moonshine that saturates its valley. Her dependence is solely upon the land, and her roots run as deep as any chestnut tree. The dirt of her land runs deep under her fingernails, and she can cure what ails anyone – if she so pleases to do so. A former prostitute who sold her body for practical means, she now makes her living as a healer or as some say, a shaman or witch. The woman who watches over the two young men has a steely eye and an even sassier mouth – Granny May Docherty, a bawdy firecracker of a female. The work is done lovingly and thoughtfully at the side of his old friend and expert mechanic each touch put upon the Ford a caress given as lovingly as though they were lovers. He spends his days tinkering on Maybelline, his precious retro-fitted Ford coupe. While the memories of Korea will haunt his nightmares forever the ghosts of friends lost and the faces of his enemies permeating the very air he breathes while both awake and asleep, Rory has been able to find a semblance of peace wrapped up in that mountain and the old, creaky home that resides there. Life after war has proven a tad unpredictable, but he’s been able to find solace in the whispers of the familiar mountain of his childhood. Making money as whiskey runner.Īnd perhaps, that dancing girl who makes hats. With gritty and atmospheric prose, Taylor Brown brings to life a perilous mountain and the family who rules it.Rory Docherty cares for only a few things. When Rory's life is threatened, Granny must decide whether to reveal what she knows.or protect her only grandson from the past. His grandmother, Maybelline “Granny May” Docherty, opposes this match for her own reasons, believing that "some things are best left buried." A folk healer whose powers are rumored to rival those of a wood witch, she concocts potions and cures for the people of the mountains while harboring an explosive secret about Rory’s mother - the truth behind her long confinement in a mental hospital, during which time she has not spoken one word. In the mill town at the foot of the mountains - a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car racing - Rory is bewitched by the mysterious daughter of a snake-handling preacher. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal agents, and stokes the wrath of a rival runner. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe.
In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina.īootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint.
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