9781984819888-1984819887-The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel

The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781984819888
ISBN-10: 1984819887
Edition: First Edition
Author: Lisa Wingate
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781984819888
ISBN-10: 1984819887
Edition: First Edition
Author: Lisa Wingate
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover 400 pages

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The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9781984819888 and ISBN-10: 1984819887), written by authors Lisa Wingate, was published by Ballantine Books in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Book of Lost Friends: 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 $0.54.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students' lives.

"An absorbing historical . . . enthralling."--Library Journal


Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away.

Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia's Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.

Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt--until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

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