_ _Hailed as "America's finest realistic novelist" by the _Boston Globe,_ Richard Yates, author of _Revolutionary Road,_ garnered rare critical acclaim for his bracing, unsentimental portraits of middle-class American life _._ _Disturbing the Peace_ is no exception. Haunting, troubling, and mesmer
An Undisturbed Peace
β Scribed by Mary Glickman
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 240 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Hailed as "the finest depiction of the infamous Trail of Tears," this unflinching novel sheds light on a tragic history (Pat Conroy).
As the tribes of the South make the grueling journey across the Mississippi River, a trio of disparate characters is united by a "far-reaching story of love, courage, and honor" (Booklist).
Greensborough, North Carolina, 1828. Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy streets of East London in search of a better life. But Abe's visions of a privileged apprenticeship in the Sassaporta Brothers' empire are soon replaced with the grim reality of indentured servitude.
Some fifty miles west, Dark Water of the Mountains, the daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, leads a life of irreverent solitude. Twenty years ago, she renounced her family's plans for her to marry a wealthy white manβa decision that soon proves fateful.
And in Georgia, a black slave named Jacob has resigned...
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