Kelly Mustian is the author of The Girls In The Stilt House. The story is set in the 1920's in Alabama and is about two teenaged girls. Ada, living with her abusive father, has run away to Baton Rouge with a musician. Now the musician is moving home to Texas. Even though she vowed not to return to her father, she has no other choice than to live in the stilt house again. Down the road, Matilda is the daughter of a poor share cropper. She would love to move to Ohio with the family of her former neighbors because they can make more money in a week than she can make all year. She decides to wait until her mother gives birth this fall. Her father is share cropping for a morally corrupt man who is using him to run home made liquor up to Chicago. Ada and Matilda form an unlikely bond that helps them survive when others don't The story is well told and the characters are fully developed.
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