Jayber Crow

Jayber Crow is a man who has grown up with what many would see as disadvantages. His disconnection from love at such a young age keeps him emotionally independent until the day he dies. He is married in his heart to someone he can never have and is willing to live with that reality and that commitment.

Jayber is the mellowest of men, with a deep and abiding faith that excludes violence. He treats everyone with kindness, even when he does not feel it. Jayber has learned to examine his life, as well as others, and draws his conclusions based on his sense of goodness, his sense of humor and his deep love for the earth and humanity.

His early training for the ministry served to show Jayber that nothing man has created, such as organized religion, is a sure truth. He finds truth in nature and...