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Spalding, Linda.
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Families -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Fiction.
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Spalding, Linda.
Families -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Fiction.
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A
reckoning
: a
novel
/ Linda Spalding.
by
Spalding, Linda.
McClelland & Stewart, c2017.
Call #:
FICTION SPA
Subjects
Families -- Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780771098222 (hc.)
Description:
318 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Map on endpapers.
Summary:
"As the deeply moving and troubling account of a family's breakdown, A
Reckoning
is the perfect companion to Linda Spalding's bestselling, award-winning
novel
, The Purchase. It opens in the spring of 1885, when John Dickinson is involved in a shameful secret that will require a tragic decision. The family's resources have been wasted by a reckless brother who holds all of them hostage and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who pushes them to escape. Bry does, and his pursuit of freedom will involve a dangerous quest to find his mother and child in Canada. Meanwhile, the Dickinsons become fugitives of another kind, escaping their losses in a wagon en route to the West that will eventually be loaded onto a Missouri river boat for a dark adventure. Forests and rivers prevail in this story, and each person will be tested, especially thirteen-year-old Martin, whose lonely journey with a pet bear is almost mythic. Spalding, a Kansas native who lives in Toronto, writes with irresistible force and breathtaking passion. Her language is stunning, her voice unique. A
Reckoning
confirms her place at the forefront of Canadian literature."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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