Join Kelly Mustian and hoopla for a virtual event discussing Kelly's bestselling novel THE GIRLS IN THE STILT HOUSE, the hoopla Book Club spotlight selection! Learn more about our Book Club and borrow the audiobook or eBook with your library card at theclub.hoopladigital.com.

The Girls in the Stilt House, is such a masterful piece of historical fiction that it's hard to believe it's Kelly Mustian's debut. Expertly crafted and assuredly told, it's a captivating, moving tale that will sweep you away to the heat, humidity, and stickiness of the 1920s Mississippi swamplands and into the lives of two teenage girls from completely different backgrounds who are bound together forever by the shared experience of violence.

As the story begins, Ada, a young white woman, is pregnant and alone and, with seemingly nowhere else to turn, reluctantly returns to the home of her sadistic father. Soon, she finds herself reliant on Matilda, the black daughter of a sharecropper. Lying low herself, Matilda helps Ada through her pregnancy and spends her time writing about the ongoing prejudice and poverty found in the South...

You'll need your Newbury Library card to register with hoopla at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6173554800640744717

*Don't live in Newbury? Any Massachusetts resident can signup for a Boston Public Library card and access hoopla (and this event) that way at: https://www.bpl.org/ecard/