Remembrance

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The work Remembrance represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Remembrance

Statement of responsibility

Rita Woods

Creator

• Woods, Rita

Author

• Woods, Rita

Subject

• FICTION / African American / Women
• FICTION / Historical
• Fiction
• Fiction
• Fugitive slaves
• Fugitive slaves
• Fugitive slaves -- Fiction
• Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804
• Haitians -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Fiction
• Earthquakes -- Haiti -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th century
• Ohio -- Fiction
• Slaves -- Fiction
• Underground Railroad -- Fiction
• Women -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• FICTION / African American / Historical

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "Remembrance...It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. A refugee struggling to rebuild her life in America after the devastating Haitian earthquake is suddenly inexplicably bound to a mysterious old woman who is not at all what she seems. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of revolution. When the slave Abigail is forced from her children to take her mistress to safety, she discovers New Orleans has its own powers. 1857 New Orleans-a city of unrest: Following tragedy, house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom. Desperate, she escapes and chases a whisper.... Remembrance"--
• Ohio, present day. A refugee struggling to rebuild her life in America after the devastating Haitian earthquake is suddenly inexplicably bound to a mysterious old woman who is not at all what she seems. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of revolution. When the slave Abigail is forced from her children to take her mistress to safety, she discovers New Orleans has its own powers. New Orleans, 1857. Following tragedy, house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom. Desperate, she escapes and chases a whisper. Remembrance. It's a rumor. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy-- if you can make it there. -- adapted from jacket

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3623.O6766

LC item number

R46 2020

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult