A review by amiewilson
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly

5.0

I found this novel to be unique. There are many stories set during prohibition, but I haven't read any about the events surrounding the flooding of the Mississippi in 1927. I loved both of the main characters: Dixie Clay, a lonely, talented bootlegger and Ted Ingersoll, a prohibition agent on special assignment. Readers know from the start that these two characters will have to come to terms with being on the opposite side of the law as their relationship progresses, but the way the story unfolds does not make it super predictable or trite. The descriptions of the never-ending rain, the desperate plights of the people losing their homes, lands and livelihoods to the flooding and the crowded levee towns are all rich with detail and lovely in verse. Read it- Thoroughly enjoyable!