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Reviewed on March 1, 2019 | Fiction
More than 20 years after Mason's Retreat and six years after The Right-Hand Shore, Tilghman returns with the love story of Thomas and Beal. Love story, yes. Fairy-tale romance, no. In 1894 Maryland, for an interracial couple to marry, they must leave. Leave their families, leave the blighted orchards of the Retreat, leave America and its blighted legacy of slavery. Thomas and Beal begin their young marriage in France, first in Paris, then in the rugge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
