Ingersoll, the more soulful of the two agents, having grown up as an orphan himself, decides to take the baby and find him a decent home.Ingersoll is referred to a woman whose heartbreak over her lost son is well known around town, Dixie Clay.

Instead she was attracted to good-looking-smooth-talking Jessie, who turned out to be abusive and bad.

Anyway it all comes together and yes it is fairly predictable in a way but Ingersoll is a character worth reading this book for, even if the history and the big flood is not of interest. There are very compelling scenes of the flood, burning of Atlanta, cinematic opportunities of the highest order. I believe this would be a great read for many book clubs. And then they go and throw a baby in there, and suddenly i'm reading page after page about changing nappies and the best croup home remedies and, oh, look how cute he is!

There's no romanticism or false nostalgia though. The flood is a major part of the story, what these people were doing leading up to it and after, "sandbagging and sabateurs, dynamite and deluge." Dixie Clay’s still is the one he is especially tasked to find and she is the key to finding out what happened to the last two revenuers sent to Hobnob to investigate. The scene where Ing's horse, Horace, feels reverberations from the levee underfoot, while brief, spoke to me.

These are the stories of the Rough South hearkening back to Harry Crews, Tim McLaurin and others. The Tilted World The 1920's was a time for a great many changes, it also ushered in a tremendous opportunity for crime. See all 57 critical reviews › MRSN. Set against the backdrop of the Great Flood of 1927, the story is intriguing, the language is downright lyrical, and the characters captured our attention from the first pa Sometimes books by two authors seem choppy or poorly written.

While this tale lets readers in on a forgotten part of American history, the story itself did not wow me, leaving me pine for more of the author's work.

by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly. It was very interesting reading how people coped during the Flood.The book is full of spare, elegant, beautifully crafted sentences that demand to be reread or read out loud.I had already read and loved "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" by Tom Franklin before I read "The Tilted World" and was hoping for another good book. You know what's cool and interesting? A strong woman married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. but hobnob was torn with indecision, with a bunch of down-on-their-luck farmers who felt they should struggle and die on the same land where their parents had stubbled and died, and no one was able to agree on how the money was to be distributed. I loved the Revenuers' stories, the bootlegger/antagonist, and his wife Dixie Clay, "a woman married to the wrong husband, who died a little every day." Chatting with him is always a pleasure. The town in this photo (Greenville, Mississippi) features prominently in the book. Also, the ending wrapped up a little too nicely for my liking. 1927. Franklin mellowed somewhat with Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.

Business is just fine.However, Jacob, the son Jesse makes on her dies young. But it also turned out to be a nice love story -- how a family can be created from nothing but love and lots of gumption. Many might offer Katrina, with almost 2,000 dead and damage over $100 Billion. These were the days of Prohibition, where bootlegging moonshine Tom Franklin's books have always pleased me, and this one did not disappoint. At the crime scene, they find an orphaned baby, and Ingersoll, an orphan himself, takes it upon himself to find the baby a good home. Redneck moonshiners matching wits against undercover revenue agents on the banks of a rapidly swelling river threatening to blow at any moment. And, whileThroughout the book, as the story plays out, the rain is ever-And when that catastrophe strikes, you may think of the next lyric in that Zeppelin song: “When the levee breaks, I’ll have no place to stay.”Support the Independent by purchasing this title via our affliate links: For some reason I thought this was going to be more about the big flood of 1927 but it’s just part of the story.

Dixie Clay's a crack shot and finds she manufactures the best whiskey ever produced in the area.