The Comfort of Our Kind

the long version

Situated between two mountain ridges, the New England town of Franklin Notch celebrates its history and the characters who have forged it. The cornerstone of its heritage is Talbert's Treaty, an eighteenth-century agreement between the original settlers and the Sagaweh Indian nation. As children, Boone, Veronica, and Reggie were trained by their mother's puzzling bedtime stories to serve in God's Army of Saints and fight for goodness on earth. Now, as adults, they search for their gifts of faith, hope, and grace in a parade of life-altering adventures while struggling with the presence of evil in the world. Along the way, they collide with a collection of characters, including a serial killer, a Zen-like naturalist doctor, a genius Mafia princess, phony Native Americans, and the Devil himself in various incarnations of human vanity.