****A richly evocative and important novel about what happens to a Virginia family that must come to terms with their slave-owning past as the Civil War approaches and an abolitionist visits their plantation, throwing it into turmoil and eventually sending the family West.**** It is 1855. The thou
A Reckoning: A Novel
β Scribed by Sarton, May
- Book ID
- 107587350
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781497647480
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