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"Set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans, this new work from the acclaimed author of Between Earth and Sky is a powerful story of human resilience--and of the unlikely bonds that hold fast even in our darkest moments. "The dead can't hurt you--only the living can." Effie Jones,...
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Kensington Publishing Corp.,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | 2019. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"Set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans, this new work from the acclaimed author of Between Earth and Sky is a powerful story of human resilience--and of the unlikely bonds that hold fast even in our darkest moments. "The dead can't hurt you--only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies--and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to |
Item Description: | Includes discussion questions. |
Carrier Form: | 326 pages ; 21 cm |
ISBN: |
9781496713681 1496713680 |
Index Number: | PS3619 |
CLC: | I712.45 |
Call Number: | I712.45/S627-2 |