The girls in the stilt house : a novel / Kelly Mustian.
Record details
- ISBN: 1728245753
- ISBN: 9781728245751
- ISBN: 1728217717
- ISBN: 9781728217710
- ISBN: 9781728217710
- ISBN: 1728217717
- ISBN: 9781728245751
- ISBN: 1728245753
- Physical Description: 376 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes author's note and reading group guide. |
Summary, etc.: | "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives."--Provided by publisher. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 33 of 33 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Douglas Library of Hebron.
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The Girls in the Stilt House : A Novel
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "Remarkable debut.... [a] nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance and redemption."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED review Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder--perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise. Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see in Ohio. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.