I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

"When Nona Conklin brings him a painting by the great-grandfather she never knew, gallery owner Tiimothy Randolph knows he's found the project of a lifetime: curating a spectacular cache of folk art hidden for decades in the mountains of her home. The Conklin Collection is haunted and hauting, powerful in its brutal simplicity. What looks like the work of a fevered imagination begins to appear more and more like the desperate attempts of a man toiling at the edge of his limits to depict what cannot be depicted...An underlying order as old as the hills, its thousand throats concealed beneath the roots and rocks, between the streams and trees, deep in the besieged mountains of Appalachia. But the most crucial painting of all is missing. and the only place it could be is the last place that should be searched." -- p.[2] of cover.