Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Straight, Susan |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 5/8/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl’s perilous journey to of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At fourteen she is sold, separated from her mother without a chance to say goodbye. Bright, imaginative and well aware of everything she risks, Moinette at once begins to prepare for an opportunity to escape. Inspired by a true story, A Million Nightingales portrays Moinette’s experience–and the treacherous world she must navigate–with uncommon richness, intricacy, and drama.
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