Clay County, set in 1944 in east Tennessee, is a story about four teenagers. Amid war, corruption, violence, greed, and growing into adulthood, each navigates through the challenges to escape a life that holds them in repression. Unknown to them, their guardian angel is an eighty-year-old preacher who lives in the woods with his dog Sampson. Preacher Monroe is a mystery. He drops tidbits of information along the way about his life and mission. From...