

The Jump-Off Creek
Author: Molly Gloss
Narrator: Sara Morsey
Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/27/2024
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Western, Action & Adventure
Author: Molly Gloss
Narrator: Sara Morsey
Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/27/2024
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Western, Action & Adventure
MOLLY GLOSS is the best-selling author The Hearts of Horses, The Jump-Off Creek, winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award, The Dazzle of Day, winner of the PEN Center West Fiction Prize, and Wild Life, winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award.
Love this book. want to read nothing but stories about lady pioneers from now on. I love Molly Gloss.......more
This book is a good choice if you want your historical fiction to be well-researched and to feel authentic in style and voice, which is increasingly a priority for me. Set in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s, the book focuses on hardscrabble settlers trying to make a life there. In particular, t......more
4.5. My well-read and thoughtful Aunt Martha sent me this for a birthday (inscription: “Happy Birthday! 1991”). It only took me nearly 30 years to read it but I’m so glad I’ve kept it. I think I tried reading this as a teenager but didn’t have much patience for well-written books at the time. My 40-......more
At first I thought this was going to be another woman homesteader story like all of the others with a woman struggling to survive but succeeding and eventually marrying and living happily after. However, this story is more realistic than most and probably more accurate of the experience even though......more