River Sing Me Home

Eleanor Shearer

eBook - 2023

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” (The Observer). Named One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist “A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined”—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian Her search begins with an ending....The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 18...34 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no... more