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The Girls in the Stilt House
The Girls in the Stilt House
Author: Kelly Mustian
Set in 1920s Mississippi, two teenage girls are cast in an unlikely partnership through murder... Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781728217710
ISBN-10: 1728217717
Publication Date: 4/6/2021
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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4.2 stars, based on 15 ratings
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 25
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pj-s-bookcorner avatar reviewed The Girls in the Stilt House on + 859 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Poignant, haunting, thoughtful. Very good read - images of Where the Crawdads Sing. Set in the Trace of a Mississippi swamp in the early 1920's. Deep south. Racism, bootlegging run rampant. Two girls forge a type of friendship in order to survive the hardships of life in their physical environment and the hardships of family and the times.
smileen avatar reviewed The Girls in the Stilt House on + 249 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Highly recommended book to me. I enjoyed reading the story. Always love relationship story between friends, although this did not start out as one, and took the whole book to truly make them understand what they had was only each other. Took place in the 1920's, Mississippi. Two poor girls, one black, one white, both abused from dysfunctional family relationships. Emotionally exhausting, but well worth the read!
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WVwoman avatar reviewed The Girls in the Stilt House on
This is an enchanting debut novel about two teenage girls, one white, one black that are dealing with cruelty, poverty and racism in 1920's Mississippi. The characters are so well developed and the story flows so smoothly that you have to keep turning the pages because you desperately want to find out what happens.
MKSbooklady avatar reviewed The Girls in the Stilt House on + 946 more book reviews
A trip back in time, 100 years to be exact. To a place that is certainly no longer there. Two young girls, one white, one black, and the way they save each others lives. Well written.


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