My thoughts
This is the third book by this author. She has captured each beautifully. The lives in both other books, If The Creek Don't Rise and All The Little Hopes, are in this book. In character or in thoughts. I loved it, though If The Creek Don't Rise will probably always be my favorite. Sadie was such a character to love.
Baines Creek, deep in the Appalachian mountains, is where this story mostly takes part. With Kate Shaw the school teacher for the past ten years. Bridie Rocas the town healer/witch. Bridie still has many secrets. Then you meet Lydia Brown. A psychic who traveled to Baines Creek to see Bridie. Hoping to find answers.
Kate and Lydia become friends. Kate moves away from the Baines Creek area after the closing of the school house. It's a one room school and of course with modernization they children have to travel to a new county school.
In this book you get to know a little about Sadie's mother. About Sadie's child gone missing. Who has her and whether she will be returned. A few unanswered questions are revealed. And some tunnels under two graveyards.
This book has a lot and I was very confused with a lot of it. I enjoyed it very much though. The ending chapters showed me a lot but I'm still scratching my head. I'll have to think about rereading this one for more clarity. But still it's very good.
I hope this author writes more about this area and what happens with the people here.
Do not miss any of this. The Reading Group Guide is great and the Conversation with the Author was magnificent. Read those for sure.
Thank you NetGalley and SourceBooks Landmark for this ARC.
4.5 stars
About
An outsider to the Carolina hills inherits a gift that could change everything for her beloved village on the verge of dying out, from an author of whom NPR said writes "with a deep knowledge of the enduring myths of Appalachia...vividly portraying real people and sorrows."
Welcome to Baines Creek, a town hidden deep in Appalachia, where one of the last one-room schoolhouses in America is on the brink of closing. It's summer 1980, and Kate Shaw has lived in Baines Creek for ten years. A skeptic by heart, she rejects superstition and the belief in Appalachian folklore, much to the chagrin of local legend Birdie Rocas, a lively and reclusive witch with a trove of secrets. Yet when Birdie dies and leaves Kate her collection of handmade books and a trunk of illuminated manuscripts and journals, Kate is thrown into world of things she doesn't understand. Enter Lydia Brown, a psychic with a curious birthmark whose visions stopped the day her parents died. Grief-stricken, without her gift, and in need of spiritual guidance, she travels to Appalachia in search of Birdie and the answers she might provide.
The third novel by acclaimed author Leah Weiss, The Creek, The Crone, and the Crow is the tale of a powerful crone, two women cut from the cloth of loss, and a secret sisterhood of empowerment that may be the key to healing them all.
Welcome to Baines Creek, a town hidden deep in Appalachia, where one of the last one-room schoolhouses in America is on the brink of closing. It's summer 1980, and Kate Shaw has lived in Baines Creek for ten years. A skeptic by heart, she rejects superstition and the belief in Appalachian folklore, much to the chagrin of local legend Birdie Rocas, a lively and reclusive witch with a trove of secrets. Yet when Birdie dies and leaves Kate her collection of handmade books and a trunk of illuminated manuscripts and journals, Kate is thrown into world of things she doesn't understand. Enter Lydia Brown, a psychic with a curious birthmark whose visions stopped the day her parents died. Grief-stricken, without her gift, and in need of spiritual guidance, she travels to Appalachia in search of Birdie and the answers she might provide.
The third novel by acclaimed author Leah Weiss, The Creek, The Crone, and the Crow is the tale of a powerful crone, two women cut from the cloth of loss, and a secret sisterhood of empowerment that may be the key to healing them all.
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