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Gap Creek

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A native of the North Carolina mountains, Robert Morgan was raised on land settled by his Welsh ancestors. An accomplished novelist and poet, he has won the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, and the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize. His short stories have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and New Stories from the South, and his...more

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Published October 2nd 2000 by Touchstone (first published January 1st 1999)

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Apr 13, 2008 Alisa rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. It's amusing that this novel is recommended by the Oprah Book Club juggernaut alongside Faulkner, because Morgan is trying for the Faulkner unreliable narrator, first-person regional dialect. I don't think he's entirely successful, though.

The dust jacket let us know he's from North Carolina mountain stock, and the setting feels pretty authentic. I think it's late 1800s or around the turn of the century, but it's not entirely clear. I do wish that had been more obvious, but then the narrator, Ju...more

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Jan 14, 2008 Christine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was not so bad but it wasn't as intriguing to me as the other books I read. I don't like to read about any sort of books containing rural background.
I really enjoyed how Julie, the main character just gets things done whether she wants to or not. I, on the other hand, cannot be like her because at home when I'm assigned to do chores, I do them when I'm done with my homework or if I really don't like doing it, I don't get it done at all.
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Feb 12, 2013 Agape rated it 4 of 5 stars

Robert Morgan's "Gap Creek" is written in a simple manner, easy to read, but raw. If you think your life is rough, read this book. The primary root of trouble in this story is the land of Gap Creek itself. In fact, the earth itself is so extraordinarily pervasive and alive, that Morgan almost allows it to become its own rich, cumbersome but generous character. In this story, the land of Gap Creek rears itself up and fights against the main characters Julie, Hank and the other mountain people on...more

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Mar 21, 2009 Jenn rated it 3 of 5 stars

I thought this one started strong but ended weak. The subtitle is "The Story of a Marriage," but I don't find that accurate, since the story doesn't follow the marriage through--we only get a glimpse at the very beginnings of a marriage. I expected, based on the title, to get the whole story, and I feel a bit jipped. Also, the further along I got, the more I skimmed because I started getting bored. Overall, though, I enjoyed the story, and I think MOrgan accurately portrays the Appalachian lifes...more

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Aug 05, 2008 Suzanna rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Brigitte

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I loved this book. I selected it to read because my public library's website said that if you liked "These is My Words", you would like this one. However, between requesting it from there and starting it, I read some Goodreads reviews and thought, ugh, I picked a bummer. Not so! In that light, I want to address some of the negatives I read on this site from other readers.

This book is, indeed, written by a man. And it is told from a young woman's perspective. But I found the author to be extremel...more I loved this book. I selected it to read because my public library's website said that if you liked "These is My Words", you would like this one. However, between requesting it from there and starting it, I read some Goodreads reviews and thought, ugh, I picked a bummer. Not so! In that light, I want to address some of the negatives I read on this site from other readers.

This book is, indeed, written by a man. And it is told from a young woman's perspective. But I found the author to be extremely insightful, and I'm sure if he had used a woman's penname I would never have guessed his gender. Not only does he grasp what it is to be a woman, he has the naïveté of what it is to be a newlywed, young woman, down pat. He also understands how women perceive men, and how the actions of a husband affect a wife. And he showed insight into how one grows in the beginning of marriage. So, as far as I am concerned, the author's gender is not a problem.

Another issue I noticed in several reviews is that some readers feel this book is depressing. Now this is going to sound harsh, but it's how I feel. Either they are reading from an unsophisticated, naive or very young perspective, or they read the Cliffs Notes version and didn't get everything out of it they should have. Yes, the main character is this novel faces some terrible times. That's life, and it was certainly how life was at the turn of the 19th century for the average working person in the mountains of America. People on farms then, and similarly now, dealt with death on sometimes a daily basis, at least in some form. And at that time, illness was terrible and people died from things that don't kill normally healthy people now. What apparently was lost on these readers is the strength and perseverance of the main character, Julie. Julie is a powerhouse of courage and hope. She gets handed lemons in life, and she makes lemonade every time, even when she doesn't feel like it. She delights in the small joys of life - such as the blueness of the summer sky and frost on morning grass, and birds in the trees. When she reaches that point that a trial is over, she feels cleansed or strengthened. And no matter what happens or how bad things get, she never gives up, and always clings to hope - whether for herself or for someone she loves. And the book ends with that very sentiment - hope.

The last of the concerns expressed by other readers I want to address was the graphic details of some of the events, such as a hog killing and butchering. I did not feel it was indulgent. It was graphic, but why wouldn't it be? I'm not sure hog butchering is something you can effectively sugarcoat. And I doubt that the average reader would grasp what a chore it is for a woman to help with hog killing and butchering without some details. Like other events in the book, it's explained in a manner that makes the reader understand it, and in a way that I think a woman who had to go through it might actually explain it.

I'll wrap up by saying one of the things I loved about this book is that it is not terribly romantic, at least in the traditional sense. I don't like books (or movies for that matter) that are fluff. Real life is about people hanging onto each other and relationships through what is described in wedding vows - for better or for worse, in sickness and in health. Julie falls in love with her husband just like so many women do. He is physically attractive to her, he appears to be strong in character, and he appears to be ready to do anything in the world to make her happy. But when he disappoints her, and when life is rough, and that "sickness" and "worse" come into play, they learn how to hang onto each other, and how to make a life together - in spite of differences and difficulties. If you need fluff to make you happy, this book is not for you. (less)

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Jan 24, 2008 Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Beth by: Oprah's Book Club

I went to Oprah's book club to find some new reads and happened on Morgan. I was attracted to this because it takes place in the Appalachians.

His writing is very poetical and descriptive, with an almost musical lilt to some of his writing. Add to that the country way of speaking that lends a charm of it's own.

"The ground was deep in fresh-fell leaves, and leaves sparkled like they was waxed and oiled. I kicked up a cloud of leaves. I kicked up a fog of new-fell leaves. I kicked away the leaves...more

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Dec 19, 2008 Heather rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who enjoys early 1900's fiction

Gap Creek takes you back in time to Julie Harmon's life at the turn of the century. She grew up helping her father and mother run their house and farm. Julie watches her brother and then her father die, and is the one the family depends on to care for these two as they are ill. Events take a quick turn after these deaths when Julie meets Hank Richards, and marries at the young age of 17. Robert Morgan takes you through the day to day struggles of life and ends the tale emotionally with yet anoth...more

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Jan 24, 2009 Camden rated it 1 of 5 stars

This book alone managed convince me to ignore Oprah's Book Club. The situation was interesting enough but I decided that Robert Morgan should not try to write from a woman's perspective. In my opinion he got it all wrong. Not worth recommending and i can't figure out why so many people loved it.

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Mar 22, 2013 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book and the main character, Julie. She is amazing! I can understand why some people thought this book was depressing---she goes through so much hardship. Personally, I was inspired. It helped me appreciate my modern conveniences and ease of life.
I was especially impressed with Julie's strength---both physical and mental---and wisdom for her age. She was very insightful in knowing how to maintain peace in her home despite troubles. What acceptance, too! I felt humbled in r...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Suzie rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Oct 12, 2012 Heather Adams rated it 4 of 5 stars

Julie Harmon is an inspiring, likable character who keeps going even while enduring one tragedy after another. Morgan has said that he struggled to find her voice, but I think it's clear that he did find it because she is realistic and memorable. Morgan's writing is beautiful and at times poetic, which is not surprising given his background as a poet. The scene with Julie, her father, and brother in the woods at night is amazingly well done, especially Julie's realization that the natural world...more

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Apr 01, 2012 Yvonne rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the 2nd book I've read recently that's told from the strong female character's perspective and the book was written by a man. I am in awe of that, it's just great writing and story telling. Set at the beginning of the 20th century 1899 - 1900, in the mountains of the Carolina's, memories of the civil war are fresh and vibrant. A young bride, 16 year old Julie, and her husband Hank who is 17 or 18, move to Gap Creek to set up housekeeping. Gap creek is sandwiched in a deep narrow valley,...more This is the 2nd book I've read recently that's told from the strong female character's perspective and the book was written by a man. I am in awe of that, it's just great writing and story telling. Set at the beginning of the 20th century 1899 - 1900, in the mountains of the Carolina's, memories of the civil war are fresh and vibrant. A young bride, 16 year old Julie, and her husband Hank who is 17 or 18, move to Gap Creek to set up housekeeping. Gap creek is sandwiched in a deep narrow valley, far from the mountain tops they both grew up on in North Carolina. Julie and Hank keep house for the owner of the property, Mr. Pendergast, who is an old widower, in lieu of paying rent.
But a series of situations and circumstances follow one after the other, as life takes hold of Julie and Hank and hits them as hard as possible, challenging them to even survive.
Their marriage is a rather silent affair, there's no time to talk when you have to work constantly and so hard to have food, a clean home, look after animals, and on and on. Julie works harder than anyone, she can chop wood, butcher a hog, cook, can, clean, and fix just about anything. Hard work is all she knows besides the love of her family. But it's through work that a person is defined, if you don't work hard on the land, you can starve. Hard work helps you cope with grief, disappointment and focuses you on the next day and the future.
And there is always something to be done, and it's always back breaking. Going to the spring to get water, to put on the outside stove, to boil the clothes and do laundry. Nothing is easy.
As Julie and Hank feel their way to getting to know each other, to defining their role and place within their young, fragile marriage, they never lose hope. And that is the biggest theme in this wonderful story of courage, hardship and love. Never give up, never lose hope, no matter what life throws at us. Easier said than done, but eventually Julie and Hank learn to put one foot in front of the other and move forward.
Simply and beautifully written, Julie is a strong, smart but humble, down to earth young woman, who only knows one way, and that's forward. She is moral, and honest and willing to learn. A true to life female character. And really, Julies story is almost every woman's story in one way or another. Thank you Robert Morgan, you are a very insightful man.(less)

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Jan 09, 2012 Lisalu rated it 4 of 5 stars

Alright I know this book has been out for years, but I just got around to reading it. I was looking for something to occupy some time over winter break and this seemed to meet my requirement--just about 300 pages. More than that and I admit it, I get distracted! Happy with my choice. This was one of those books where I found myself sneaking away from other things I needed to do, to go back and read more. I guess I found out that I enjoy this type of historical fiction more than I realized. It ma...more

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Nov 01, 2011 Sally906 rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Oct 26, 2011 Stacie rated it 3 of 5 stars

I wanted to like this book a lot because it's written by a local author and is set in this general area, and I tend to appreciate books like that on a different level than books set in an unfamiliar place. However, there were a few things that threw me off.
First, I realize that many authors write religion/spirituality into their novels in order to make the characters accurate to their time or to their personalities, but in this novel the religious aspect just felt actually preachy. I don't know...more

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Jun 01, 2011 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Set in South Carolina (roughly) near the end of the 1800's, this is the story of Julie, narrated by Julie. By the time she is 16 or 17, she has seen a lot of suffering and worked very hard. She falls in love with Hank, and they get married. They are both very young, and the first year of their marriage is difficult. The book is really about the marriage, as seen through Julie's eyes.

There were times (when Hank gets angry and smacks her) when I was really frustrated and wanted her to just leave...more

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May 05, 2011 Gina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Stripped of all pretense by harsh elements in both nature and neighbors, Julie grows before our eyes into a heroine able to sustain and enrich her marriage and her faith through humility, simple grace and plain old hard work. More than a journal of one individual's coming of age, this time exposure of a young Appalachian couple in hard times accomplishes several important things. The reader is reminded of those elements that are truly essential: family, friends, and faith, and of the self-sacrif...more

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Jun 10, 2010 Shelley rated it 4 of 5 stars

I picked this up and it immediately caught my attention. I read a little bit at night before bed over a couple of nights and then took it to work today where I sat and finished it in a couple of hours. I know a lot of people did not like the way it was written but I had no problem overlooking the "ignorant" speech of the characters. They were what they were. The other complaint that some of my friends had was that the title would seem to indicate it covered the whole marriage or at least a good...more

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Mar 24, 2010 Pamela rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Mar 16, 2010 Lynne Spreen rated it 4 of 5 stars

“The hardest work I did on Gap Creek was trying to get the voice right,” says Robert Morgan, who has been called the poet laureate of Appalachia. The voice, as it happens, is of seventeen-year-old Julie Harmon. At seventeen, she’s a good girl, and strong, working as hard as a man alongside her father in this gritty, realistic portrayal of life in late-nineteenth-century North Carolina.

Morgan starts us off with the depiction of a horrifying illness in the very first chapter. When her younger bro...more “The hardest work I did on Gap Creek was trying to get the voice right,” says Robert Morgan, who has been called the poet laureate of Appalachia. The voice, as it happens, is of seventeen-year-old Julie Harmon. At seventeen, she’s a good girl, and strong, working as hard as a man alongside her father in this gritty, realistic portrayal of life in late-nineteenth-century North Carolina.

Morgan starts us off with the depiction of a horrifying illness in the very first chapter. When her younger brother dies, followed a bit later by her father, Julie becomes the head of the family, caring for her mother and sisters until a handsome boy passes through the holler. After a few weeks, she and the boy, Hank, marry and move the distance of a day’s walk to Gap Creek. Since homes are few and far between, they rent a room with a stinky, lewd and mean old widower in exchange for Julie’s serving as the maid and housekeeper. While Hank works at a distant mill, Julie cleans, cooks, tends the fields and the farm animals, splits and hauls wood and even butchers a hog, the rendering of whose fat causes disaster. Written in a voice similar to Cold Mountain, Gap Creek tells the story of a can-do kind of young woman who works so hard it hurts your back to read about it.

Morgan portrays the delicate evolution of a marriage, and of a girl trying to define her identity in relation to the union, a timeless theme for sure, but one made more nuanced by the circumstances in which Julie lives. On one level this is a love story, comparable to that of any impoverished but earnest young couple determined to carve out an existence in their world.

It’s just that their world is so Darwinian. Julie’s strength and skills are essential in a time and place where the only food you eat is what you can raise or kill yourself; the only shelter you live in is what you build or maintain alone. Medical care is a matter of family knowledge handed down for better or worse from generation to generation. Superstition carries unquestioned curative or destructive power. She and Hank live at the meanest edge of subsistence, with no electricity or running water, and just one injury, illness, or crop failure between death and survival.

Morgan use simple descriptions to transport us into Julie’s everyday world:
“I stepped out to the back porch and looked in the yard. Like in any backyard, there was a woodshed and a smokehouse, a clothesline, a path to the toilet on the right, and a path to the spring on the left. And further out there was a barn and hogpen. The washpot was on the trail to the spring. And there was a table and a wooden tub on the trail next to the pot. I looked around the porch and found a washboard and a bucket. And by the water bucket was a cake of Octagon soap.
“I grabbed that bucket and carried several gallons of water from the spring and poured them in the pot. And then I got some kindling and wood from the shed and started a fire under the pot…it took me four trips just to carry Mr. Pendergast’s clothes out to the wash table.”

Earnest, loyal and naïve – but not stupid – Julie isn’t daunted by the need to work like a mule. In a metaphor for her resilience, she finds solace in hard work. Hank is weak, a whiner, impulsive, with a bad temper. The two of them weather fire, flood, extortion, swindling, poverty and hunger. She is so much stronger than him, but by the end of the story he changes.

The challenges are endless, the struggle Sisyphean. She works and works, yet the problems never slow down, and her effort seemingly pointless in clawing some security from the soil. What, I wonder, was Morgan trying to tell us? He said the book is based on his grandmother, that he wanted to explore what life was like for women who worked so hard for everybody else. Examples of hard work? How about washing and dressing a dead man? Butering a hog? In that sense the story is a portrait of self-sufficiency, and the kind of strength you don’t see so much anymore.

There is a primitive rawness to the world in which Julie lives, leaving little indication of divine intervention. In two major scenes she seems deflated by the world’s indifference, given over to an existentialist’s sad musings:
“I sat there on the cold ground feeling that human life didn’t mean a thing in this world. People could be born and they could die, and it didn’t mean a thing…little Masenier was dead. There was nothing we could do about it, and nothing cared except Papa and me. The world was exactly like it had been and would always be, going on about its business.”

When Julie “finds religion” it’s more a matter, I think, of finding community with other earnest human beings, and garnering strength from their friendship. She is helped and is grateful, and in this Morgan makes a profound yet subtle affirmation of the essential bond between human beings.

In the end, this book is about innate strength, and the courage to make a life, to enjoy carnal and spiritual love, and to battle hard luck and crushing circumstance. I found it inspiring.
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Jan 30, 2013 Michele Chapman rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is an Oprah's Book Club selection by a prize winning author, which usually equates to the Midas Touch of Literature. However, it didn't ring true for me. Perhaps it was because it was a man writing a female character. It reminded me a great deal of someone writing about the sea who had never seen it or smelled it or touched it. The main character, Julie, came across as an abstract, conceptual woman rather than a real one.

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Sep 10, 2012 Melissa rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Wow, I've never really delved into the whole Oprah's Book Club thing, but this one had it blazoned on the cover, and it sounded like an interesting enough premise. I'm not sure I'd read one of her suggestions again after this. I was absolutely horrified at some parts.

Julie has had a tough but loving upbringing. One of many girls ( a brother died young) she becomes accustomed to taking care of the family after her father falls ill. Then, one day, along comes handsome Hank who proposes to her with...more Wow, I've never really delved into the whole Oprah's Book Club thing, but this one had it blazoned on the cover, and it sounded like an interesting enough premise. I'm not sure I'd read one of her suggestions again after this. I was absolutely horrified at some parts.

Julie has had a tough but loving upbringing. One of many girls ( a brother died young) she becomes accustomed to taking care of the family after her father falls ill. Then, one day, along comes handsome Hank who proposes to her within a week and whisks her away to Gap Creek. Here she is to be a housekeeper for the man they are staying with while Hank works in town. But a series of hardships befall them and test this young marriage out.

Julie was an ok character. She wasn't really believable, but at least she was admirable. Hank on the other hand. I really despised Hank. Not only was he an idiot, but he was an abuser as well, physically, mentally, verbally. He was the whole "package" and not in a good way. And yet we were supposed to feel urges of sympathy for him through Julie's eyes. Although she presented with the feelings and emotions of an abused person so I guess that part was accurate, although hardly what I think the author was going for. Hank just ruined the whole book for me though, I kept hoping that Julie would leave his sorry self and that's when the story would get started. And since those two were the bulk of the characters in the book, there weren't even redeeming side characters to appreciate much.

Not a lot actually happens as far as big events in this book. It just details the tough time that Julie and Hank have in their marriage with acts of nature, troublesome neighbors, and meddling inlaws. Not to mention the fights between the two because of Hank's insecurities. I can't deny that the book wasn't well written. It was well done in terms of use of language and writing style, the voice of the novel and accents were accurate, but the content was not ok. And it was a very very sad tale, with barely any light at the end of the tunnel.

I just couldn't bring myself to like this book and will probably steer clear of Morgan if I come across another of his books. I just couldn't align myself to the way he presented his characters.

Gap Creek
Copyright 1999
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Review by M. Reynard 2012

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Nov 15, 2011 Karyl rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Julie is a young girl whose burdens weigh heavily on her shoulders. Her father has no sons, and she's the strongest, and least likely to complain of her sisters. When her father takes sick, and later dies, she does all the hard work to keep her family afloat. She marries at 17 to a boy she barely knows, and he takes her down to Gap Creek, South Carolina, to live near his new job. Throughout the book, the couple suffers hardship after hardship, barely surviving their first winter together. It's a...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Donna BookWorm rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Sep 29, 2011 Emily rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Just awful. I understand the way Morgan suggests that Julia is uneducated by usimg incorrect grammar, and that's okay, rather irritating, but okay. However, that is not what bothered me so much about this book. The first few chapters were vauge and somewhat interesting, making you think this book is going to go somewhere with the first tragic events that happen. Sadly, this is not the case. The deaths of Julia's papa and only brother seem quickly forgotten as Julia finds what is more like a crus...more

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Oct 18, 2011 Robin rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Gap Creek is written from the point of view of Julie, a girl in her late teens living in 19th century Appalachia. She marries a young man and starts her life in a valley town called Gap Creek. All of the events are told entirely from her perspective, and because of her young age it's apparent that, while she has a great deal of practical knowledge and self insight, there is a lot about the world she doesn't understand.

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Jul 28, 2011 Shari Larsen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This novel is about a young, newly married couple living in South Caroline, in the Appalachians, near the turn of the century after the Civil War. Julie is only 17, and Frank 18, and are very poor. Nothing comes easy for them, and they deal with death, fire, floods, swindlers, sickness, and near starvation.

The characters are memorable, and though they are long-suffering, the author does not make them into saints either. It was a very realistic portrait of what it was like to live in that time an...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Bdalton rated it 3 of 5 stars

Julie is a hardworking teenage girl from the mountains of North Carolina. She has always born the brunt of the heavy labor in her family because her father and younger brother were sickly. She marries a man she barely knows from a neighboring mountain town and they set off to Gap Creek South Carolina to begin married life. Set in 1900, a time of change and new beginnings, this is a story of personal struggle and growth.

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Sep 18, 2010 Leslie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I had read this once before, but when it showed up in the astonishing stack of books my aunt sent me recently I thought it was time for another visit with the Richards family down in the valley. The theme I liked the most in this books is that it doesn't seem to be a good idea for mountain folk to leave the mountains; that's just asking for trouble.

And trouble is just what Julie and Hank get when they move down on Gap Creek so Hank can go to work at a job nearby. Julie, newly married with the se...more

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Jan 24, 2009 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book is about a girl's marriage (the first year or so of it). Some of the details the author chose to give I thought could have been left out. However, it is the comprehensive version, I suppose. It was well written, well thought-out, and illustrates many good ideas. But, basically, it is a couple's first year of marriage (especially when you don't really know the person you are marrying this is probably what it would be like. . . you PRAY you would have as much patience as Julie!!). Anyway...more

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Robert Morgan was raised on his family's farm in the North Carolina mountains. The author of eleven books of poetry and eight books of fiction, including the bestselling novel Gap Creek, he now lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches at Cornell University.

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