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If the Creek Don't Rise

par Leah Weiss

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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. 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."--… (plus d'informations)

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rabck from spoiledrotten; Set in Appalachia in the 1970s (although it could have been anytime in the 20th century), schoolteacher Kate is fired from her private school for assisting a student & for her lifestyle. She's hired by dirt poor Baines Creek. The chapters switch between pregnant teen Sadie, her deadbeat, abusive husband & his friend who run a Moonshine business, and a few of the other folks in the holler. I was hoping Prudence would be changed, but that didn't happen. Good ending for how Sadie escaped her marriage. (

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nancynova | Feb 17, 2024 |

Fantastic book! Such well-written, multi-dimensional characters. I won't go over the plot but will say that the author portrays a vivid, heart-wrenching story of a hard life in the remote Appalachian mountains in the early 1970's where the law wasn't always followed and people did what they could to survive.

I loved the characters, and especially Sadie's strength at the end.

Such a great read! (

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JillHannah | Nov 20, 2023 |

This is a debut novel by Leah Weiss and it really is good.I loved the cover of this book, it made me want to know more about the girl. It is a story told from different points of view where all the story starts to fall into place. It is a tearjerker so be ready for it, but a truly remarkable read. The people of Baines Creek are honest and gritty folk. This is a book of abuse and scandal but so well written.
My Thanks to The Publishers and Netgalley for the ARC xx (

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TheReadingShed01 | Feb 25, 2023 |

Seventeen-year-old Sadie Blue certainly isn’t the first girl in the hollers of Baines Creek to marry too young to a man who only knows how to use his fists, but when Roy Tupkin beats her so badly she loses her baby, she decides it’s the last damn time it’ll happen to her.
This richly layered story is divided into parts, each from a different character’s point of view, weaving together the secrets and hardships of a North Carolina mountain town in the 1970s and the people who inhabit it.
An excellent character study with dialect true to the hills, I loved the authenticity but wasn’t bowled over by the sometimes flowery writing that romanticized the stereotypes (no matter how accurate) of Appalachia. (

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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. 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."--

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