{"product_id":"9781616201760","title":"Gap Creek (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGap Creek (Oprah's Book Club)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Robert Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller \u0026amp; Oprah's Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGap Creek \u003c\/i\u003ea timeless story of a marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Morgan . . . shows what it was like to be human in a time and place now far removed from modern America. He creates living, breathing souls who, as transparent as their dreams and fears may seem today, demand to be taken seriously.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Orlando Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“His stripped-down and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams’s best songs.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Gripping storytelling, indelible sense of time and place . . . Morgan turns the stories of prosaic lives into page-turners.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Raleigh News and Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781616201760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"A Shannon Ravenel Book","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40848546103502,"sku":"9781616201760","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_ab1c75e4-1f5c-4672-8605-d4312950fbc5.jpg?v=1643791342","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781616201760","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}