The release date for the English version of 'The Girls in the Stilt House' by
Kelly Mustian is Apr 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This debut Southern novel, set in 1920s Mississippi, is ideal for fans of If the Creek Don't Rise and Where the Crawdads Sing. It tells the heartbreaking and beautiful story of two young girls who are forced to become unexpected friends through murder.
Ada made a self-promise to herself that she would never return to the Trace, her stern father, or her difficult life in the swamp. She ran away to Baton Rouge and experienced a different kind of life for a short while, but now she is stuck at home. She is also aware that her father will come at a cost.
Matilda is from the other side of the Trace and is a sharecropper's daughter. It's a constant battle for her to defend her family from the whims and demands of some particularly heartless locals. She devises a scheme to travel north, gather the secrets she has been keeping about her life in the South, and display them for everyone to see in Ohio.
The two girls must confront the intricacies of their shaky relationship and a secret background that could endanger their lives as they are pulled more into a perilous world of bootleggers and moral decay.