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001			on1333439020
003			OCoLC
005			20230207114402.0
008			220621s2023 nyub e 000 1 eng
010			_a 2022025625
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dBDX _dOCLCF _dOCO _dCHY _dJVK _dIMT _dRNL _dNFG
020			_a9780593548042 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0593548043 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1333439020
042			_apcc
043			_acc-----
092			_aSHEARER, _bELEANOR
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aShearer, Eleanor, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRiver sing me home / _cEleanor Shearer.
250			_aBerkley hardcover edition.
263			_a2302
264		1	_aNew York : _bBerkley, _c2023.
300			_a322 pages : _bmap ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs. Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children--the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children... and her freedom"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSlaves _xEmancipation _zCaribbean Area _vFiction.
650		0	_aMother and child _vFiction. _9338
650		0	_aEscaped prisoners _zCaribbean Area _vFiction.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zCaribbean Area _vFiction.
651		0	_aCaribbean Area _xHistory _y19th century _vFiction. _9153987
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c362745 _d362745