City girl falls in love with country boy in the family saga Locust Hill. Carl Parsons' third novel details the struggles of an independent, small acreage farm family in the Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia. With wife Cassandra as the narrator, the novel recounts her discovery of a different world just outside her West Virginia hometown, a quaint rural village where people survive and maintain their community by helping one another. During their life together, Cassandra learns that her husband, Jim Russell, is the very embodiment of this spirit.