Enduring Hills

By: Janice Holt Giles

This is the story of Hod Pierce, a boy who grows up in Piney Ridge, 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 call him home. It takes a war to get Hod away from the Ridge and out into the great world, and it is 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0029CRSDY
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin