The River Knows Your Name

A Novel

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Pub Date Apr 01 2025 | Archive Date Apr 12 2025
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From the acclaimed author of The Girls in the Stilt House comes a long-awaited novel both atmospheric and lyrical, a haunting Southern story about memory, family secrets, and fierce and fragile love.

For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase—a record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been haunted by hazy memories of their early life in Mississippi, years their reclusive mother, Hazel, has kept shrouded in secrecy. Evie recalls nothing before their house on Clay Mountain in North Carolina, but Nell remembers abrupt moves, odd accommodations, and the rainy night a man in a dark coat and a hat pulled low climbed their porch steps with a very little girl—Evie—then left without her.

In dual storylines, Nell, forty-two in 1971, reaches into the past to uncover dangerous, long-buried secrets, and Becca, a young mother in the early 1930s, presses ahead, each moving toward 1934, the catastrophic year that would forever link them. 

From a windswept ghost town long forgotten, to a river house in notorious Natchez Under-the-Hill, to a moody nightclub stage, Evie's other mother emerges from the shadows of Depression-era Mississippi in a story of hardship and perseverance, of betrayal and trust, and of unexpected redemption in a world in which the lines between heroes and culprits are not always clearly drawn.

From the acclaimed author of The Girls in the Stilt House comes a long-awaited novel both atmospheric and lyrical, a haunting Southern story about memory, family secrets, and fierce and fragile love.

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PAGES 432

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A great read. I loved the haunting atmosphere and the detailed story. All of the characters were perfectly crafted.

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I had enjoyed the way Kelly Mustian wrote this and thought everything worked with the storyline being told. The concept worked well overall and was engaged with how haunting this was. I enjoyed the overall feel of this and glad I got to read this.

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A beautiful and moving southern story about a mother and daughter and the story of both their comings of age against the backdrop of both the Depression and the chaotic 1970s

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I loved this authors debut novel so I was excited to get an ARC for this one. I really enjoyed the story and how it was wrapped up at the end. I had an idea what happened but couldn’t put it all together completely. This story was engaging and well written. I would read more books by this author..

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