02313cam a2200421 i 4500 1159515017 MeVbMML 20230712130116.0 201023s2021 ilu 000 1 eng 2020047357 9781728217710 1728217717 9781728245751 1728245753 (OCoLC)1159515017 AJM pcc n-us-ms 813/.6 23 M974 .g Mustian, Kelly, author 13764 The girls in the stilt house : a novel / Kelly Mustian Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2021] 376 pages ; 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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 BPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund. Alcohol trafficking Fiction. sears 13765 Natchez Trace Fiction 13766 Mississippi Fiction 5922 Historical fiction. gsafd 129 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 Online version: Mustian, Kelly. Girls in the stilt house Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2021] 9781728217727 (DLC) 2020047358 .b170618808 ddc BOOK 28891 28891 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2023-07-12 16.99 5 1 MUST 64385 2023-11-14 2023-10-25 2023-07-12 BOOK 1