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Grady, Wayne.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Grady, Wayne.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Up
from
freedom
: a
novel
/ Wayne Grady.
by
Grady, Wayne.
Doubleday Canada, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION GRA
Subjects
Race relations -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780385685115 (trade pbk.)
0385685114 (trade pbk.)
Description:
344, [6] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes a reading group guide (p. [345]-[350]).
Summary:
"As a young man, Virgil Moody vowed he would never be like his father, he would never own slaves. When he moves from his father's plantation in Savannah to New Orleans, he takes with him Annie, a tiny woman with sharp eyes and a sharper tongue, who he is sure would not survive life on the plantation. She'll be much safer with him, away from his father's cruelty. And when he discovers Annie's pregnancy, already a few months along, he is all the more certain that he made the right decision. As the years pass, the divide between Moody's assumptions and Annie's reality widens ever further. Moody even comes to think of Annie as his wife and Lucas as their son. Of course, they are not. As Annie reminds him, in moments of anger, she and Moody will never be equal. She and her son are enslaved. When their "family" breaks apart in the most brutal and tragic way, and Lucas flees the only life he's ever known, Moody must ask himself whether he has become the man he never wanted to be--but is he willing to hear the answer? Stretching from the war-torn banks of the Rio Brazos in Texas to the muddy waters of
Freedom
, Indiana, Moody travels through a country on the brink of civil war, relentlessly searching for Lucas and slowly reconciling his past sins with his hopes for the future. When he meets Tamsey, a former slave, and her family trying to escape the reach of the Fugitive Slave Act, Moody sees an opportunity for redemption. But the world is on the cusp of momentous change, and though some things may be forgotten, nothing is ever really forgiven."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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