From the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of
Before We Were Yours
comes a new novel inspired by historical events: a dramatic story
of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the
destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who
rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students'
lives.
In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life
startling stories from actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that
appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as freed slaves
desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold off.
Louisiana, 1875:
In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set
off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered
heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate
free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave.
Each
carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas,
following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers
still fighting a war lost a decade before.
For Lavinia and Juneau Jane,
the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation, but for
Hannie, torn from her mother and eight siblings before slavery's end,
the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing question: Could her
long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the seemingly
limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.
Louisiana, 1987:
For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor
rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student
debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town.
Augustine, Louisiana, seems suspicious of new ideas and new people, and
Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken
students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes
lies the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey,
and a hidden book that could change everything.
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F - 2146 | The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
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