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Harper
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
256 pages
ISBN: 0062335944
EAN: 9780062335944
Kindle: B00HYMCJBU
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Historical
Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the
waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent
debut novel follows three generations of family—fathers
and
daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters
who
yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war,
kidnapping,
slavery, and love. Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the
marshes
of her small coastal village and listens to her father’s
stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never
knew. Since the loss of his wife Helen, John has remained
land-bound for their daughter, but when Tab contracts
yellow
fever, he turns to the sea once more. Desperate to save
his
daughter, he takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda,
hoping the salt air will heal her. Years before, Helen herself was raised by a widowed
father.
Asa, the devout owner of a small plantation, gives his
daughter a young slave named Moll for her tenth birthday.
Left largely on their own, Helen and Moll develop a close
but uneasy companionship. Helen gradually takes over the
running of the plantation as the girls grow up, but when
she
meets John, the pirate turned Continental soldier, she
flouts convention and her father’s wishes by falling in
love. Moll, meanwhile, is forced into marriage with a
stranger. Her only solace is her son, Davy, whom she will
protect with a passion that defies the bounds of slavery. In this elegant, evocative, and haunting debut, Katy
Simpson
Smith captures the singular love between parent and child,
the devastation of love lost, and the lonely paths we
travel
in the name of renewal.
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