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If the Creek Don't Rise

By: Leah Weiss
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Kate Forbes
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A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in southern fiction.

In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for 15 days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being Roy's wife.

As stark and magnificent as Appalachia itself, If the Creek Don't Rise is a bold and beautifully layered debut about a dusty, desperate town finding the inner strength it needs to outrun its demons. The folks of Baines Creek will take you deep into the mountains with heart, honesty, and homegrown grit.

©2017 Leah Weiss (P)2017 Recorded Books Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction Marriage Heartfelt

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All stars
Most relevant
A must listen.
Listened in 48 hours on and off.
Brilliant story.
Brilliant narration / first class!
Well worth 5 stars but way above that.

A corker! So binge listening audiobook and us up there with Where The Crawdads Sing. 5 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Struggled to get into this and found my mind wandering a bit. Writing was good in parts and some great descriptions of the people and location, but felt like it finished very abruptly so was left feeling a bit disappointed

Slow and steady then abrupt ending!

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In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She’s been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being Roy’s wife.
I was gripped by this from the very first page. It is a tough and quite often brutal book, but at the heart of it there is a love and search for redemption. The characters are well drawn and the performances as brilliant.. The Southern American accent can easily descend into pastiche, however in this audiobook both Tom Stechschulte and Kate Forbes bring all the characters to life with each nuance and cadence of their speech. Leah Weiss creates a vivid atmosphere and even I as a Welsh middle aged man could see and even smell the Appalachian Mountains. Truly remarkable debut.

ANOTHER GREAT SOUTHERN WRITER.

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Absolutely beautiful characters and performance although the full development of characters felt somewhat truncated, as if the book ended before it was supposed to. Eg Kate snd Ely? That never developed? Pity. I could have gone either way another 15 chapters to see the characters and relationships play out further.

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great story
the performance subliem
love'd It ferry muts
the story was to muts to short.

A pearl.

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