Gap Creek : The Story of a Marriage

ISBN: 1565122968

Author: Robert Morgan

Condition: New

A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung Julie Harmon works hard as a man, they say, so hard that at times shes not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.But Julie and Hanks new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes its hard to tell what to fear most-the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage.