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Breena Clarke
ISBN: 9780316007054
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown & Company
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'Calling all book clubs! Breena Clarke, whose River, Cross My Heart was a 1999 Oprah pick scores again...She tells the deeply affecting story of a family of freed slaves in an evocative, historically rich book that brings the turbulent Civil War period a
Even though former slaves Annie Coats and her son Gabriel have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice - to the extent that Annie secretly recalls her days on the plantation with fondness. Washington's Georgetown neighbourhood, where they are seeking to build their new lives - with Gabriel, a tailor, producing uniforms for soldiers and fine suits for pompous politicians, and Annie, a seamstress and laundress, catering to the nearby brothels and stately homes - is supposed to be a safe haven, a 'promised land' for former slaves, but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people. In fact, the city's own emancipation efforts in 1862 serve only to compromise the family's status, putting Gabriel's three young daughters (each of them born free of free parents) at risk of becoming the property of the family's former master...
| ISBN | 0316007056 | | Pages | 352 | | ISBN13 | 9780316007054
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Little, Brown & Company | | Weight (grammes) | 323 | | Imprint | Grand Central Publishing | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 208 | | Publication date | 06 Aug 2009 | | Width (mm) | 137 | | Library of Congress | PS3553 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Alternative ISBN | 9781400158782 |
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"Clarke again delivers a gripping story and seemingly effortlessly captures the bond between a mother and son and the price of freedom."--Ebony  Be the first to write a customer review
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