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Set against the backdrop of the traditional flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World can be an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a female who find sudden love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed writer of the New York Times best-seller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly. The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including federal earnings agent Ted Ingersoll and his spouse, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the very small hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agencies who'd been on the path of a local bootlegger, they can be astonished to find a baby boy empty in the center of a crime world. Ingersoll, an orphan increased by nuns, is set to find the toddler a home, and his search leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A solid woman married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a kid to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. As soon as they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no proven fact that she's the best bootlegger in the state and could be connected to the agencies' disappearance. Even though he seems kind and light, Dixie Clay recognizes full well that he's an adversary who can never be trusted. When Ingersoll discovers a saboteur might be among them, planning a catastrophe along the river that could wreak havoc in Hobnob, he recognizes that he and Dixie Clay will face obstacles and choices that they can be lucky to make it through. Written with extraordinary perception and tenderness, The Tilted World is that rarest of masterpieces, a story of seemingly regular people who find desire and deliverance where they least expect it - in each other.
