The Falls of the Wyona by David Brendan Hopes confronts friends growing up in Appalachia just after WWII not only with the material threat of the wilderness, but with the uncharted darkness of their own maturing hearts.
From its first lines, The Falls of the Wyona deftly, surely immerses the reader in its turbulent, inevitable flow. David Hopes has created a work of not only excellent writing, but excellent reading, combining the exacting narrative of a Jack London or M. Scott Momaday with lines of lyric, almost maternal gentleness, lines that make one close one's eyes and dream of better times ahead&;mdash;Ryka Aoki, author of He Mele a Hilo
