The Tilted World by Tom Franklin

The Tilted World by Tom Franklin

In 1927, as rains swell the Mississippi, the river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, where federal agents Ted Ingersoll and Ham Johnson arrive to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents--and find a baby boy abandoned in the middle of a crime scene.

Ingersoll finds a home for the infant with local woman Dixie Clay Holliver, unaware that she's the best bootlegger in the county and has many tender and consequential secrets of her own.

The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love.

Unmentionables, Gentle Hooks, and Open Home are three poetry volumes by Beth Ann Fennelly, as are two memoirs, Heating & Cooling and Wonderful with Child, and a book, The Tilted World, coauthored with her husband, Tom Franklin. She is the state's Poet Laureate and teaches at the University of Mississippi. She is a resident of Oxford, Mississippi.