The Tilted World (edition 2014)

by Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly

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Title

The Tilted World

Author

Tom Franklin

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Crime Fiction, 1920's, Mississippi, Bootleggers, 2024CC, Category: Badly made tea is a criminal offense, 2024 Reading Challenge: Set in the American South, July TIOLI #11: Title could be the name of a pub

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The Tilted Word is written by husband and wife team, author Tom Franklin and poet Beth Ann Fennelly. Set during the catastrophic 1927 flooding of the Mississippi this is a beautifully written story that includes murder, bootlegging and unexpected love.

Revenuers Ted Ingersoll and Ham Johnson arrive in Hobnob Landing with a mission to locate the local bootlegger and the murderer of the missing two revenuers that were last known to be in Hobnob. On the way, they unexpectedly find an abandoned baby at a crime scene. While Ham travels on, Ingersoll takes the baby and tries to find a family for him. He ends up coming on to Hobnob and placing the baby with Dixie Clay Holliver, little knowing that she is married to the bootlegger that they are searching for. On her part, Dixie Clay is living a life of mourning and regret. Mourning the baby she lost and regret over her marriage to the slimy, corrupt Jesse. Dixie falls in love with her new baby and she and Ingersoll bond over their concern and caring of the infant. While the romance is slow and gentle, both the tension and the river continue to rise.

The Tilted World is a gripping story and one in which the reader cannot help but root for Dixie Clay and Ingersoll to not only find each other, but save the baby and themselves from the devastating flood. Considering that there were two authors, the story is smoothly knit together and 1927 rural Mississippi comes alive on these pages.

Other authors

Fennelly, Beth Ann

Publication date

2014

Publication

William Morrow (2014), 336 pages

ISBN

0062069195 / 9780062069191

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Number of copies

Pages

336