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A million nightingales
By Straight, Susan
- ISBN
- 978-0-37542-364-2
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 15, 2006
In Straight's latest novel (afterHighwire Moon ), Moinette, a mulatto slave girl, lives on a plantation south of New Orleans in the early 1800s. She is a personal maid to the daughter of her owners, who are trying to prepare their daughter for her entrance into the social world and marriage. When the young woman suddenly dies, Moinette is abruptly sold and shipped off, torn from her mother and the only world she has ever kno...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
