If the Creek Dont Rise, Leah Weiss
If the Creek Dont Rise, Leah Weiss
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If the Creek Don't Rise

Author: Leah Weiss

Narrator: Kate Forbes, Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/22/2017


Synopsis

He's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta Lynn.

Sadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That's long enough to know she should have never hitched herself to Roy Tupkin, even with the baby.

Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket out of town is hard to come by and hope often gets stomped out. When a stranger sweeps into Baines Creek and knocks things off kilter, Sadie finds herself with an unexpected lifeline … if she can just figure out how to use it.

Fans of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek will love this intimate insight into a fiercely proud, tenacious community and relish the voices of the forgotten folks of Baines Creek.

With a colorful cast of characters and a flair for the Southern Gothic, If the Creek Don't Rise is a debut novel bursting with heart, honesty, and homegrown grit.

About Leah Weiss

Leah Weiss, PhD, is a researcher, professor, consultant, and author. She teaches courses on compassionate leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is principal teacher and founding faculty for Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. She also directs Compassion Education and Scholarship at HopeLab, an Omidyar Group research and development nonprofit focused on resilience. She lives in Palo Alto, California with her husband and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanna

My reviews can also be seen at: [URL not allowed] Wow. What an incredible read! As soon as I read the first page, the first line, I knew it was going to be quite an emotional story. "I struggle to my feet, straighten my back, lift my chin, then he hits me again. This time I fa......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea

This review is featured in my Mini Review segment: I absolutely LOVED this novel! I know it won't be for everyone, but being a female from the Deep South who adores character studies that manage to become the plot itself made this the perfect read for me! The unique form of dialogue and slow building......more

It's bold, powerful, dark and hard to believe that this is a debut novel. In alternating first person narratives from a cast of characters that will be hard to forget, Leah Weiss took me to the mountain community called Baines Creek in the Appalachian Mountains in NC. And I mean took me there! From......more