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Amity / Nathan Harris.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.A7832635 A65 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Nathan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Fiction.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- African Americans--History--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Voyages and travels--Fiction.
- Voyages and travels.
- Deserts--Fiction.
- Deserts.
- Freed persons--Fiction.
- Freed persons.
- New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Mexico--Fiction.
- Mexico.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Fiction.
- Enslaved persons.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
- Summary:
- In 1866 New Orleans, formerly enslaved siblings Coleman and June are separated, only to embark on perilous, individual journeys through the Mexican desert to reunite and seize the freedom they were promised.
- "New Orleans, 1866. The Civil War might be over, but formerly enslaved Coleman and June have yet to find the freedom they've been promised. Two years ago, the siblings were separated when their old master, Mr. Harper, took June away to Mexico, where he hoped to escape the new reality of the post-war South. Coleman stayed behind in Louisiana to serve the Harper family, clinging to the hope that one day June would return. When an unexpected letter from Mr. Harper arrives, summoning Coleman to Mexico, Coleman thinks that finally his prayers have been answered. What Coleman cannot know is the tangled truth of June's tribulations under Mr. Harper out on the frontier. And when disaster strikes Coleman's journey, he is forced on the run with Mr. Harper's daughter, Florence. Together, they venture into the Mexican desert to find June, all the while evading two crooked brothers who'll stop at nothing to capture Coleman and Florence and collect the money they're owed. As Coleman and June separately navigate a perilous, parched landscape, the siblings learn quickly that freedom isn't always given--sometimes, it must be taken by force." -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780316456241
- 0316456241
- OCLC:
- 1534138690
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