If The Creek Dont Rise

Posted on 14 October 2018 by Leah Weiss

A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in southern fiction.In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk She s been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be to life than being Roy s wife.As stark and magnificent as Appalachia itself, If the Creek Don t Rise is a bold and beautifully layered debut about a dusty, desperate town finding the inner strength it needs to outrun its demons The folks of Baines Creek will take you deep into the mountains with heart, honesty, and homegrown grit. New Read Books If The Creek Dont Rise Author Leah Weiss – kino-fada.fr My reviews can also be seen at What an incredible read As soon as I read the first page, the first line, I knew it was going to be quite an emotional story I struggle to my feet, straighten my back, lift my chin, then he hits me again This time I fall down and stay down while he counts Sadie Blue is picking foolish pride at first when she stands up with her chin high until her good for nothing husband, Ray hits her again When she falls this time My reviews can also be seen at What an incredible read As soon as I read the first page, the first line, I knew it was going to be quite an emotional story I struggle to my feet, straighten my back, lift my chin, then he hits me again This time I fall down and stay down while he counts Sadie Blue is picking foolish pride at first when she stands up with her chin high until her good for nothing husband, Ray hits her again When she falls this time she decides to stay down Ray finally stops and leaves Slamming the trailer as he walks into the woods.Her daddy s spirit comes to her telling her she needs to get awa...4.5 Stars If The Creek Don t Rise is a unique novel whose structure feels light and breezy and veers drastically from the standard formula found in fiction But despite its gentle execution, this story delivers some of the heaviest of punches and invites the reader to step outside of the book for a spell I felt as though I was sitting in a quiet, dimly lit kitchen, having tea and biscuits with an old southern friend who comforts and enlightens me with her bottomless wisdom It s a small town, 4.5 Stars If The Creek Don t Rise is a unique novel whose structure feels light and breezy and veers drastically from the standard formula found in fiction But despite its gentle execution, this story delivers some of the heaviest of punches and invites the reader to step outs...This review is featured in my Mini Review segment I absolutely LOVED this novel I know it won t be for everyone, but being a female from the Deep South who adores character studies that manage to become the plot itself made this the perfect read for me The unique form of dialogue and slow building tension worked well in my humble opinion the broken dialect reflected the time period s lack of value for women and the dark struggle that many have endured at the hands of a violent drunk The stor This review is featured in my Mini Review segment I absolutely LOVED this novel I know it won t be for everyone, but being a female from the Deep South who adores character studies that manage to become the plot itself made this the perfect read for me The unique form of dialogue and slow building tension worked well in my humble opinion the broken dialect reflected the time period s lack of value for women and the dark struggle that many have endured at the hands of a violent drunk The story was very straight forward there isn t much sense of mystery or suspense in the natural sense, but I found that the tension building between Roy and Sadie really catapulted the story forward and gripped me for the entirety of the narrative Oh, and that ending I thought it was brilliant I must be the odd ball out, as I felt there was complete closure to the story and nothing was really left hanging Highly recommended for...NOW AVAILABLE Sadie Blue Pregnant, seventeen, still a newlywed, if maybe a little less optimistic about her hopes for her marriage since her husband Roy Tupkin knocked her around a bit Her only weakness, if you can call it that, is her love of Loretta Lynn She can t read the magazine she carries around with her since she only knows how to read but a few words, but she knows all her lyrics from listening to her on the radio Her daddy, Otis Blue, has passed on, but continues to give advi NOW AVAILABLE Sadie Blue Pregnant, seventeen, still a newlywed, if maybe a little less optimistic about her hopes for her marriage since her husband Roy Tupkin knocked her around a bit Her only weakness, if you can call it that, is her love of Loretta Lynn She can t read the magazine she carries around with her since she only knows how to read but a few words, but she knows all her lyrics from listening to her on the radio Her daddy, Otis Blue, has passed on, but continues to give advice to Sadie on saving herself from Roy s temper Her mother, Carly, left Sadie s father when she was just a baby, leaving town with a fancy man full of flashy promises and little else In the here and now of 1970 s Baines Creek, the person Sadie counts on most of all is her grandmother, her mother s momma, the first of their family ...It s bold, powerful, dark and hard to believe that this is a debut novel In alternating first person narratives from a cast of characters that will be hard to forget, Leah Weiss took me to the mountain community called Baines Creek in the Appalachian Mountains in NC And I mean took me there From the present day of the story in 1970 to flashbacks of the past and dreams, these various points of view give us a vivid picture of this place and the people who live there From the beginning, the fir It s bold, powerful, dark and hard to believe tha...5 Stars.If The Creek Don t Rise is a stunning and extremely poignant character study of life in a North Carolina mountain town Most of these characters have heart and they make you care right off the bat For the life is hard fought in Baines Creek No one has it easy And evil lurks in this small Appalachian town, causing its residents to ban together to take care of their own.Sadie Blue is seventeen, a newlywed and pregnant She has been married for fifteen days To a man named Ray Tupkin Wh 5 Stars.If The Creek Don t Rise is a stunning and extremely poignant character study of life in a North Carolina mountain town Most of these characters have heart and they make you care right off the...4.5 stars Oh, how I loved this story I simply didn t want it to end WOW these characters what can I say I LOVED them I ADORED them I wanted to jump into the book and hug them well not all of them, but most of them I had been looking forward to reading this novel for quite a while and it definitely delivered and lived up to all the hype It s going straight to my Favourites shelf My one critique is that I wanted MORE I felt I only touched the surface of getting to know these amazi 4.5 stars Oh, how I loved this story I simply didn t want it to end WOW these characters what can I say I LOVED them I ADORED them I wanted to jump into the book and hug them well not all of them, but most of them I had been looking forward to reading this novel for quite a while and it definitely delivered and lived up to all the hype It s going s...Back when I was in the fourth grade we had an English teacher who dumped a box of books out one day and told us to read them and do book reports I ate that up with a spoon and did my best to read them all The thing isI read one that I have never stopped thinking about It was set in the Ozark mountains featuring what some people called a witch It completely nailed the mountain living that I remembered my grandmother talking about It was a big old chunk of a book, so only a couple of the Back when I was in the fourth grade we had an English teacher who dumped a box of books out one day and told us to read them and do book reports I ate that up with a spoon and did my best to read them all The thing isI ...OMG..Love the characters, and..HeHeHewhat an ending If the good Lord s willing and the creek don t riseBaines Creek is a small remote mountain settlement in North Carolina where many can t read, education is unheard of and catastrophic poverty is the norm The dialect is obscure and living conditions primitive with a feellike the 1870 s than th...Sadie BlueI struggle to my feet, straighten my back, lift my chin, then he hits me again This time I fall down and stay down while he counts,..eight, nine, ten He walks out the trailer door and slams it hard The latch don t catch, and the door pops open I lay on the floor and watch Roy Tupkin cross the dirt yard My world s gone sideways again.And just like that Weiss drops you into the heart of this story You have just met Sadie Blue and you know she is in a heap of hurt YSadie BlueI struggle to my feet, straighten my back, lift my chin, then he hits me again This time I fall down and stay down while he counts,..eight, nine, ten He walks out the trailer door and slams it hard The latch don t catch, and the door pops open I lay on the floor and watch Roy Tupkin cross the dirt yard My world s gone sideways again.And just like that Weiss drops you into the heart of this story You have just met Sadie Blue and you know she is in a heap of hurt You have al...

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14 October 2018

Leah Weiss