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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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