River sing me home
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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” (The Observer).
Named One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
“A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined”—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian
Her search begins with an ending.…
The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.
Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children...and her freedom.
Named One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
“A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined”—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian
Her search begins with an ending.…
The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.
Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children...and her freedom.
Subjects
Subjects
Barbados -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Black people
Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Emancipation
Emancipation Day (British West Indies)
Emancipation Day (British West Indies) -- Fiction
Enslaved people
Enslaved people -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Enslaved women
Enslaved women -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Escaped prisoners
Escaped prisoners -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Large print books
Literature
Mother and child
Mother and child -- Fiction
Social conditions
West Indies, British -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Black people
Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Emancipation
Emancipation Day (British West Indies)
Emancipation Day (British West Indies) -- Fiction
Enslaved people
Enslaved people -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Enslaved women
Enslaved women -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Escaped prisoners
Escaped prisoners -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Large print books
Literature
Mother and child
Mother and child -- Fiction
Social conditions
West Indies, British -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
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River Sing Me Home A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
River sing me home / Eleanor Shearer
River Sing Me Home A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
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