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Also by Breena Clarke:

Angels Make Their Hope Here, July 2014
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Angels Make Their Hope Here, July 2014
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Stand the Storm, August 2008
Hardcover

STAND THE STORM
By: Breena Clarke

Little, Brown & Company
August 2008
On Sale: July 28, 2008
Featuring: Sewing Annie Coats; Gabriel
336 pages
ISBN: 0316007048
EAN: 9780316007047
Hardcover
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Fiction | Multicultural African-American

Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor's shop and laundry, is supposed to be a "promised land" for former slaves but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people. The remarkable emotional energy with which the Coatses wage their daily battles-as they negotiate with their former owner, as they assist escaped slaves en route to freedom, as they prepare for the encroaching war, and as they strive to love each other enough-is what propels STAND THE STORM and makes the novel's tragic denouement so devastating.

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