These Silent Woods

Kimi Cunningham Grant wrote a very fine novel named These Silent Woods. The story is about a father and a daughter. The father completed four tours of duty in Afghanistan and seen horrific things and suffers from panic attacks. For reasons he doesn't want to get into with his daughter, Finch, Cooper took her at the age of four months into a remote cabin in Appalachia and has lived there ever since. In Afghanistan he saved the life of his buddy, Jake, and it is in Jake's family cabin that they live. Once a year Jake brings Cooper and Finch supplies. The only people Finch can remember meeting are Cooper, Jake, and a neighbor named Scotland. Now at age eight Finch is beginning to give her father some push back about his decisions. The story was written from Cooper's point of view. The character development is good and so is the scenery descriptions. To top that off, the ending was very satisfying. All loose ends were tied up neat in a bow.