num_pages: 305
description: 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. Shes 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 more to life than being Roys wife.As stark and magnificent as Appalachia itself If the Creek Dont 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.
language: English
title: If the Creek Don't Rise
publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark