| A Million Nightingales Contributor(s): Straight, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 140009559X ISBN-13: 9781400095599 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Haunting and beautifully written, this novel of 19th-century Louisiana is the tale of a slave girls journey--emotional and physical--from captivity to freedom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.26" W x 7.9" (0.57 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.Daughter 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. |