From AwardAnnals
| Book: | The Jump-Off Creek |
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| Author: | Molly Gloss |
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| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Co |
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William Kittredge called
The Jump-Off Creek “a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling.” The struggles of a widowed homesteader braving the austere and unsparing Blue Mountains contain “enough valor to make an ordinary life seem heroic” (
Los Angeles Times). Told with Molly Gloss’s unsentimental reserve, this novel is an inspiring reminder of a rich and uniquely American past.