High As the Horses’ Bridles by Scott Cheshire Henry Holt & Co.; 320 p. “They sit” begins Scott Cheshire’s remarkable debut, High As the Horses’ Bridles, a curt, evocative line that summons us to a 1980 Richmond Hill church where the young, prophetic twelve-year-old Josiah Laudermilk is about to give a sermon to a crowd of thousands. Laudermilk is, like his father and mother and the worshippers amassed there, part of a sect of Jehovah Witnesses that believes the world […]