Helpful Score: 5
An amazing story of love, race, and determination. A wonderful lesson on never judging a book by it's cover. Full of history, full of generations. A great read throughout, up to the unbelievable ending.
Helpful Score: 4
I couldn't get through this one. Too much description, not enough action.
Helpful Score: 4
Really one of the better reads in awhile. The novel has so much depth, heart, and soul to it. It is a story of long and a story of outcast. It is just filled with secrets that this family has and will create. It takes place at the close of the Civil War and the men are coming home. Norman {a white man} comes home with an escaped slave as his nurse and then his lover. This is a wonderful read and at times makes you feel like you are living there right then. Highly reccommend.
Helpful Score: 4
A union soldier returning from the Civil War brings home a former slave as his new wife to the family farm. With his father dead, the farm now belongs to him, but his mother and sister and the new wife clash at first and acceptance is hard to come by. A good first novel, well written.
Helpful Score: 3
This is not a quick read -- the sentences are crafted, and beg to be reread and savored. The characters are thoroughly drawn and are multi-dimensional. I found the book fascinating, and loved the post civil war historical context.
