Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

Gap Creek by Robert MorganYoung Julie Harmon works hard as a man, they say, so hard that at times shes 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 Hanks new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever

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