A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother\'s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a celebration of motherhood and female resilience ( The Observer ).
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..
These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy.
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.
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.
Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know.
Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children--the five who survived birth and were sold.
So Rachel runs.
Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived.
They must work for him for another six years.
No one can leave.
The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices.
As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect.
The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery.
A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined--Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Real Simple , Goodreads, AARP, Boston.com, BookBub and BookRiot Her search begins with an ending....
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother\'s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a celebration of motherhood and female resilience ( The Observer )
