Cheryl W. reviewed on 1/1/2006 + 7 more book reviews

From the back... Dirt poor,as sensitive as poets, and as proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mountaintop for generations. Then during the 1960's young Ursula Powell's father convinces the Tiber family, owners of everything in nearby Tiberville to commision a huge sculpture of a bear for the town. Decades later the strange sculpture---- rejected by the townspeople and left ot rust on the Pownell farm-- symbolizes a family's failure and thwarted dreams. But unknown to Ursula, it is know worht such a huge fortune that the artist's son Quentin Ricconni, is coming to reclaim it and to change everything Ursula believes about the past, the choices that break the heart, and the redeeming poweres of art and love.

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