Gap Creek (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick. Young Julie Harmon works 'hard as a man,' they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage.