Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage

Written by:
Robert Morgan
Narrated by:
Kate Forbes

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
2
Narrator
2
Release Date
February 2021
Duration
11 hours 3 minutes
Summary
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.
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This book is disturbing on a number of levels. labeled as a sweet story of marriage, but felt like a story of how many disturbing things we can throw at you when you aren't expecting it. The narrator did a great job, but there are some mental images from the beginning of the book that I don't think I will ever get out of my head. I know things like that happen in real life, but that does not mean we need to write a book an label it a 'sweet, enchanting book about marriage.' ick.

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