{"id":40261,"date":"2025-07-29T13:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=40261"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:23:55","slug":"where-the-mountains-whisper-a-novel-by-jenny-cafaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=40261","title":{"rendered":"Where the Mountains Whisper: A Novel by Jenny Cafaro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Atmospheric, evocative, and emotionally charged&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set against the rugged backdrop of Eastern Kentucky, Cafaro\u2019s compelling novel follows a young girl\u2019s fight to claim her voice.&nbsp; Growing up under the weight of her father\u2019s drinking, childhood in Coon Ridge for Flora Richardson is a mix of bruises and blessings: nights of fear broken by laughter on the porch, and a mother\u2019s fierce love that refuses to die. Those early wounds linger, and in adulthood, Flora can no longer escape the reckoning they demand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shifting in time and framed by snippets from Flora\u2019s memoir, the novel captures the rugged soul of Appalachia. Vera\u2019s brilliance and fragility, along with Tazz\u2019s enduring presence, root the story in beauty touched by sorrow.&nbsp; Cafaro, an ER nurse and Appalachian native, writes with authenticity. She reveals the endurance of women who carry entire histories on their backs, showing how faith and love survive even in the hardest soil. Lovers of raw, emotionally-charged stories rooted in place and memory will want to take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A moving, beautifully structured novel of survival, healing, and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Where-Mountains-Whisper-Jenny-Cafaro\/dp\/B0FJG3RN83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>July 27, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Brighter Days Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 979-8990873445<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Price $19.99 (USD) Paperback, $4.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atmospheric, evocative, and emotionally charged&#8230; Set against the rugged backdrop of Eastern Kentucky, Cafaro\u2019s compelling novel follows a young girl\u2019s fight to claim her voice.&nbsp; Growing up under the weight of her father\u2019s drinking, childhood in Coon Ridge for Flora Richardson is a mix of bruises and blessings: nights of fear broken by laughter on the porch, and a mother\u2019s fierce love that refuses to die. Those early wounds linger, and in adulthood, Flora can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":40263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7223,91,3328,178,1747,4405817,1136176,723771057,91586,1473,1008073,856121,309,723771059,723771058,349],"class_list":["post-40261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-fiction-book-review","tag-indie-books","tag-jenny-cafaro","tag-literary-fiction","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-southern-fiction","tag-where-the-mountains-whisper-a-novel-by-jenny-cafaro","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-atn","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mountains.jpg?fit=279%2C445&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40265,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions\/40265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}