The River Knows Your Name publication date set for April 1, 2025.

Kelly Mustian is awarded the Mississippi Library Association’s 2023 Mississippi Author Award for Fiction.

Bulgarian edition of The Girls in the Stilt House released by Labyrinth Publishing.

The Girls in the Stilt House makes the USA Today bestseller list for a second time (April 28, 2022). 

Hoopla chooses The Girls in the Stilt House as the Winter 2022 Spotlight Selection. 

The Girls in the Stilt House is The Country Bookshop’s #1 paperback fiction bestseller for 2021. Read The Pilot article here. 

The Girls in the Stilt House is shortlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American South.

The Girls in the Stilt House lands at #36 on the USA Today Bestseller List for August 5, 2021. 

The Girls in the Stilt House is longlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the American South. 

The Girls in the Stilt House is a SIBA Southern bestseller.

Deep South magazine includes The Girls in the Stilt House on its Summer Reading List 2021.

The Girls in the Stilt House gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly and is highlighted as Review of the Day. Remarkable debut . . . shocking twist of fate . . . vivid setting . . . nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance, and redemption.
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Books-A-Million’s fiction buyer chooses The Girls in the Stilt House as Buyer’s Pick for April 2021.

Library Journal includes The Girls in the Stilt House in The Best Debut Novels of Spring and Summer 2021.

The Girls in the Stilt House heads Amazon’s Must-read Mysteries and Thrillers of Spring list. 

POPSUGAR names The Girls in the Stilt House as one of 15 Books You’ll Want to Devour After Reading Kristin Hannah’s Firefly Lane.