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Stand The Storm

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0316007056
ISBN-13 9780316007054
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Imprint Grand Central Publishing
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Aug 6th, 2009
Print length 352 Pages
Weight 323 grams
Dimensions 20.80 x 13.70 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification: Historical fiction
Ksh 3,400.00
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Calling all book clubs! Breena Clarke, whose River, Cross My Heart was a 1999 Oprah pick scores again....She tells the deeply affecting story of a family of freed slaves in an evocative, historically rich book that brings the turbulent Civil War period alive' - Time
"Passionate, dramatic, and uplifting" (Washington Post), Stand the Storm is an "evocative, historically rich" novel (Time) from the author of River, Cross My Heart set among the free African American community of pre-Civil War Washington, DC.

Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington''s Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor''s shop and laundry, is supposed to be a "promised land" for former slaves but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people.

The remarkable emotional energy with which the Coatses wage their daily battles-as they negotiate with their former owner, as they assist escaped slaves en route to freedom, as they prepare for the encroaching war, and as they strive to love each other enough-is what propels Stand the Storm and makes the novel''s tragic denouement so devastating.

"A gripping novel about a family''s heart-wrenching journey out of slavery." --Baltimore Sun

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