9780593548042-0593548043-River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

ISBN-13: 9780593548042
ISBN-10: 0593548043
Author: Eleanor Shearer
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Berkley
Format: Hardcover 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780593548042
ISBN-10: 0593548043
Author: Eleanor Shearer
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Berkley
Format: Hardcover 336 pages

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River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) (ISBN-13: 9780593548042 and ISBN-10: 0593548043), written by authors Eleanor Shearer, was published by Berkley in 2023. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 in the aftermath of slavery is a "celebration of motherhood and female resilience" (The Observer).

"A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined"--Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian


Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Real Simple, Goodreads, AARP, Boston.com, BookBub and BookRiot
 
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.

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