Gap Creek: a novel
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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. Robert Morgan is the bestselling author of numerous works of fiction-including the Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek-and non-fiction, and is also an established poet with fourteen collections to his credit. Born in Hendersonville, NC, he teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English. "Set the canner further back on the stove," Ma Richards said. All the good feeling from the dinner table was gone from her voice. "I've got to leave room to set the other one on," I said. "You won't need room if that tips over on you," Ma snapped. She had changed back to her old self. Instead of answering I started carving up more fat at the table. I sliced twenty times this way and twenty times crossways. The fat sliced easy as clotted cream or thick jelly. My left hand was so slick with grease I couldn't pick up anything but the blocks of fat. I raked the knife across the board harder than I needed to, to show how determined I was to get the job done and ignore Ma. There was a little blood on the fat and on the board also, and I hardly noticed when I felt a nip at the end of my middle finger as I held a slab down to slice it. But when I saw the bright blood on the white fat I knowed I'd cut myself. A drop fell from the end of my finger, and then another. "Oh no," I said. "What have you done?" Ma said. "Just a nick," I said. "Don't get blood on the lard fat," Ma said. I grabbed a dishcloth and wiped the grease off my finger. I'd cut a place on the tip about the size of a pinhead. But it kept bleeding bright red drops. I cleaned off the left hand with the cloth and tore a strip from a fresh linen rag. I bound up the finger as best I could to stop the bleeding. "That's what comes of being in a hurry," Ma said. "I'll have to be more careful," I said. I wasn't going to take the time to get mad at Ma, and I wasn't going to stoop to the level of her snideness. With the bandage on my finger I finished slicing up the second pan of fat and then lugged the heavy canner to the top of the stove. But as I slid the container onto the stovetop I pushed it too far to the right and hit the canner already there. The boiling fat rocked like a wave had been sent through it. I backed away and seen a tongue of boiling lard spit up and over the rim as the wave sloshed on the side of the canner. The flung grease hissed on the stovetop and turned to crackling bubbles and smoke. But there must have been enough grease so that some of it busted into flame, for I seen fire on top of the stove. That might not have amounted to nothing, except the rocking and sloshing continued in the canner and the hot oil spit out again and leapt right into the flames. With a whoosh the fire flared on the stovetop. I think it would still have been all right and just burned there sizzling on the metal except a little more grease sloshed out of the pot and the fire caught onto that and followed the splash back into the pot. That was when the fire blazed up in the canne
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Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Audiobooks
Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Historical fiction
Married women
Married women -- Fiction
Mountain life
Mountain life -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction
Mountain life -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Social life and customs
United States
Young women
Young women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Audiobooks
Bildungsromans
Domestic fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Historical fiction
Married women
Married women -- Fiction
Mountain life
Mountain life -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction
Mountain life -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Social life and customs
United States
Young women
Young women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
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