Author: Susan Straight Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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