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Caribbean slavery serves as backdrop to novel 'River Sing Me Home'

On the Caribbean islands, slavery has just been abolished. Though not quite free, a mother goes looking for her stolen children and discovers her own strength, in Eleanor Shearer s moving novel "River Sing Me Home."

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River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer: Book Club Recommendation

This heartwrenching debut is a beauty. We asked a selection of our book clubbers to join Rachel s tearjerking quest to find her children as slavery is abolished in this beautiful book about fractured families, freedom, loss and love.

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The Mary Sue Book Club, January 2023: Resourceful & Resilient Protagonists

Rest is needed, but with surviving another year in the 2020s amid an ongoing global pandemic, resilience is a pretty fitting theme to kick off 2023 in fiction.

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