On Bear Mountain : a novel

only The Most Peculiar, Heartfelt Fate Could Link The Star-crossed Ricconni Family Of New York With The Dirt-poor Powells Of The Georgia Mountains. Little Do Ursula Powell And Quentin Ricconni Know That A Strange And Abstract Iron Sculpture Of A Bear Will Draw Them Together. kristin Hannah smith's Best Novel Yet. Powerful, Poignant, Funny And Heartbreaking... Stays In Your Heart Long After The Final Page Is Turned....simply Wonderful. Dirt-poor, sensitive as poets, and proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mountaintop for generations. Then, during the 1960's, young Ursula Powell's father convinces the Tiber family, owners everything in nearby Tiberville, to commission a huge iron sculpture of a bear for the town. Decades later the strange sculpture - rejected by the townspeople and left to rust on the Powell farm - symbolizes a family's failure and thwarted dreams. But, unknown to Ursula, it is now worth such a huge fortune that the artist's embittered son, Quentin Ricconni, is coming to reclaim it ... and to change everything Ursula believes about the past, the choices that break a heart, and the redeeming powers of art and love Ursula Powell, having long resented her father for spending money the family could ill afford to purchase an abstract iron sculpture of a bear, is thrown into a quandary when Richard Riconni, son of the artist who created the sculpture, offers her millions of dollars for the work which has become a symbolic and powerful presence in the Powell family and the Bear Creek community