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LocationOakland
StatusChecked Out
Call NoF MUS
TitleThe river knows your name : a novel / Kelly Mustian.
AuthorMustian, Kelly, author.
Barcode47660111112245
CollectionFiction
Summary"From the acclaimed author of The Girls in the Stilt House comes a long-awaited novel both atmospheric and lyrical, a haunting Southern story about memory, family secrets, and fierce and fragile love. For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase-a record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mississippi, years their reclusive mother, Hazel, has kept shrouded in secrecy. Evie recalls nothing before their house on Clay Mountain in North Carolina, but Nell remembers abrupt moves, odd accommodations, and the rainy night a man in a dark coat and a hat pulled low climbed their porch steps with a very little girl-Evie-then left without her. In dual storylines, Nell, forty-two in 1971, reaches into the past to uncover dangerous, long-buried secrets, and Becca, a young mother in the early 1930s, presses ahead, each moving toward 1934, the catastrophic year that would forever link them. From a windswept ghost town long forgotten, to a river house in notorious Natchez Under-the-Hill, to a moody nightclub stage, Evie's other mother emerges from the shadows of Depression-era Mississippi in a story of hardship and perseverance, of betrayal and trust, and of unexpected redemption in a world in which the lines between heroes and culprits are not always clearly drawn"-- Provided by publisher.
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OaklandChecked Out47660111112245F MUSFictionNew ShelfDue on 7/15/2025

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781464230387 (epub)
International Standard Book Number 9781464230370 (trade paperback)
International Standard Book Number 9781464230363 (hardcover)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6 23/eng/20241007
Personal Name Mustian, Kelly, author.
Title Statement The river knows your name : a novel / Kelly Mustian.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2025
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2025.
Physical Description 419 p. softcover 21 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "From the acclaimed author of The Girls in the Stilt House comes a long-awaited novel both atmospheric and lyrical, a haunting Southern story about memory, family secrets, and fierce and fragile love. For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase-a record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mississippi, years their reclusive mother, Hazel, has kept shrouded in secrecy. Evie recalls nothing before their house on Clay Mountain in North Carolina, but Nell remembers abrupt moves, odd accommodations, and the rainy night a man in a dark coat and a hat pulled low climbed their porch steps with a very little girl-Evie-then left without her. In dual storylines, Nell, forty-two in 1971, reaches into the past to uncover dangerous, long-buried secrets, and Becca, a young mother in the early 1930s, presses ahead, each moving toward 1934, the catastrophic year that would forever link them. From a windswept ghost town long forgotten, to a river house in notorious Natchez Under-the-Hill, to a moody nightclub stage, Evie's other mother emerges from the shadows of Depression-era Mississippi in a story of hardship and perseverance, of betrayal and trust, and of unexpected redemption in a world in which the lines between heroes and culprits are not always clearly drawn"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family secrets, Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mississippi, 20th century Fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft
Additional Physical Form Entry Online version: Mustian, Kelly. River knows your name Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2025. 9781464230387 (DLC) 2024046699