The Girls in the Stilt House: A Novel

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4.8
36 reviews
Ebook
384
Pages
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"Remarkable debut.... [a] nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance and redemption."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Perfect for readers of Where The Crawdads Sing! 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.

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.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
36 reviews
Leslie W.
June 24, 2023
This book was very good! I could not put it down! The Author draws you in from start to finish! Very compelling! I will be placing this on my book shelf! Its definitely worth reading again!😊
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Janet Follansbee
May 4, 2023
I found so much of the book depressing that I would find it difficult to recommend.
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Sharron Yafai
March 7, 2023
moving, exciting, intriguing, motivational.
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About the author

KELLY MUSTIAN is the author of The Girls in the Stilt House, which Publishers Weekly calls "a remarkable debut" and "a nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance, and redemption." Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and commercial magazines, and she is a past recipient of a Blumenthal Writers Award and a Regional Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts and Science Council. She is originally from Natchez, Mississippi, and currently lives near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.

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