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Absalom's daughters : a novel / Suzanne Feldman.

by Feldman, Suzanne, 1958-

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Henry Holt and Company, 2016.

Teenage girls -- Fiction.

Sisters -- Fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.

Virginia -- Fiction.

9781627794534 (hc.)

1627794530 (hc.)

253 p. ; 22 cm.

"Self-educated and brown skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother’s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for 'colored music' and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father’s inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what’s rightly theirs. In an old junk car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars hidden in a shoe, they set off through the American Deep South of the 1950s, a bewitchingly beautiful landscape as well as one bedeviled by racial striving and violence. Suzanne Feldman's Absalom’s Daughters combines the buddy movie, the coming-of-age tale, and a dash of magical realism to enthrall and move us with an unforgettable, illuminating novel."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

Magic realism (Literature)

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