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Gap Creek
The Story of a Marriage
Author: Robert Morgan
Narrator: Kate Forbes,Jill Hill
Abridged: 4 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Published: 01/27/2000
Category: Fiction - Historical
Synopsis
An Oprah's Book Club SelectionAn unflinching tale of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life, Gap Creek chronicles the challenging first year in the marriage of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards. After losing both her father and brother before turning 17, Julie faces fire, flood, grifters, sickness, and starvation with grim determination and remarkable stamina. By capturing the earthy details of rural life, including raw, riveting accounts of everything from hog slaughtering to childbirth, Robert Morgan weaves the human and the heroic that coexist in every individual.