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The Girls in the Stilt House
- Author
- Kelly Mustian
- Narrator
- Johanna Parker
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 5 June 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Murder breaks through the racial divide that separates two teenage girls, forging an unlikely friendship in this Southern debut that’s perfect for fans 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 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.
Critics Review
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“Authentic characters complement the vivid setting…in this nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance, and redemption.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Classic Southern reading.”
Library Journal
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“Highly readable [with a] richly realized setting.”
Booklist
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“An astonishingly assured debut…the best book I’ve read in a very long time. A triumph!”
Elizabeth Letts, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“Mustian’s lyrical prose, combined with her deep insight into the resiliency of the human spirit, makes this novel shine.”
Karen Dionne, author of The Wicked Sister
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“[A] rich debut…We ache for their sorrows, we cheer for their victories, and we recognize both ourselves and our nation in their troubles and their hopes.”
Jon Clinch, author of Marley
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“In prose that is stunning and assured, Kelly Mustian forges a powerful story of two young women, thrust together after unspeakable loss and devastation, and their courageous struggle to emerge from their darkest hours.”
Jessica Keener, author of Strangers in Budapest
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Details
- Author
- Kelly Mustian
- Narrator
- Johanna Parker
- Duration
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9781665105637
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Historical fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Murder breaks through the racial divide that separates two teenage girls, forging an unlikely friendship in this Southern debut that’s perfect for fans 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 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.
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