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Lisa Wingate is the author of BEFORE WE WERE YOURS. Well, she has come up with another winning novel.
This book tells a story of set in American history from 1875 thru 1988. It is old in two voices..following the Civil War and ending in current day Louisiana.
This slave history is a quest yo get a story told...the yearnings of newly emancipated and freed men and women to reconnect with the families and kinfolk from whom they were wrenched away and sold and separated. It is also a look at a publication where ads were placed in hopes of finding each other again.
Each ad and each story that evolves is powerfully told.
This book tells a story of set in American history from 1875 thru 1988. It is old in two voices..following the Civil War and ending in current day Louisiana.
This slave history is a quest yo get a story told...the yearnings of newly emancipated and freed men and women to reconnect with the families and kinfolk from whom they were wrenched away and sold and separated. It is also a look at a publication where ads were placed in hopes of finding each other again.
Each ad and each story that evolves is powerfully told.