The Enduring Hills Author:Janice Holt Giles This is the story of Hod Pierce, a boy who grows up on Piney Ridge in the Kentucky Mountains, loving his people and the land but with a longing to know the world outside. His first attempt to escape ends in frustration when his father's illness calls him home. It takes a war to get Hod away from the Ridge and out into the great world, and it i... more »s a long time before he comes back. After the war is over, Hod settles down into marriage and a job in the city, but his ways are not city ways. It is Mary, his wife, who sees at last that to Hod, Piney Ridge will always be home.« less