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    Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage
    Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage
    Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage
    Audiobook11 hours

    Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage

    Written by Robert Morgan

    Narrated by Kate Forbes

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Pick

    Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's 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 Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it's 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateFeb 9, 2021
    ISBN9781696604505
    Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage
    Author

    Robert Morgan

    Robert Morgan is a poet, novelist, and biographer. His most recent book is Boone: A Biography (2007), winner of the Kentucky Literary Award and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is now Kappa Alpha

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    • 5/5
      Gap Creek: the story of a marriage by Robert Morgan
      (Scribd audiobook )

      I accidently found this author as he was a audiobook suggestion after the last book i read. I love Reading books about Appalachia. This book shows homage to a young couple livibgvtheir first years as a married couple without much money on Gap Creek. Though it does have a religions bend to it, i admire most the the main female character Julie. Her live has never been easy but she always finds a way to meet the obstacles in her life. Pretty inspiring.
      Would i buy this book? Yes
    • 5/5
      Excellent book. Great narration. Interesting from the first page until the last