Search - Gap Creek: The Story Of A Marriage

I loved this book! So different from most of today's fiction. The author notes at the end: "I tell my students that you do not write living fiction by attempting to transcribe actual events onto the page. You create a sense of real characters and a real story by putting down one vivid detail, one exact phrase, at a time. The fiction is imagined, but if it is done well, it seems absolutely true, as real as the world around us." I say he is a master, if this book is any indication.

Wow - this is one everyone should read just to understand how easy we have it today! This is a deeply moving novel, and although it is set in the depths of poverty and difficulty, it offers a glimmer of hope, as well. The characters are intensely drawn.

i read this, because my mother in law loves Oprah, so whatever Oprah raves about, she buys and passes it on to me, for the most part these books do not float my boat, but this one sat in my night stand for a year, and i finally picked it up and tried it... i'm glad I did, as the story was gripping, not a light fun happy book, which is what I like in something I read before i fall asleep each night.. this is a great story of a time when things were hard, and life was full of challenges that required more strength than I would ever have! It was a good book that I found myself thinking about after I read it. I passed it on to my mom and she loved it.

Enjoyed this book very much. Hard to imagine such hardship, and the resourcefulness to overcome. Would like to read more by this author.

One of our book club books. I really liked it. It just hit me at the right time. Starts out with a gruesome scene, but stick with it.

The story is a hard one, but one that I couldn't put down. The lives of the characters are as real as those of us who read. The hopes, fears, pain, loss and relationships just as bittersweet as mine and people I know. The author is amazing in how he is able to so fully capture the feminine personality of the main character. I had to constantly remind myself the writer with a women's voice was actually a male. I loaned this book to my best friend who usually only likes light reading. She read the whole thing and loved it even with the hard parts because she could so relate to and understand the characters.

READ it. You'll LOVE it...really