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The girls in the stilt house : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The girls in the stilt house : a novel / Kelly Mustian.

Mustian, Kelly, (author.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781728217710
  • ISBN: 1728217717
  • ISBN: 9781728245751
  • ISBN: 1728245753
  • Physical Description: 376 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes author's note and reading group guide (pages [365]-373).
Subject: Young women > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Abusive men > Fiction.
Nineteen twenties > Fiction.
Alcohol trafficking > Fiction.
Sharecropping > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Natchez Trace > Fiction.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Potter-Tioga Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Elkland Area Community Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Elkland Area Community Library AF MU (Text) 30363000797817 Adult Fiction Available -


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