โ Marieke Nijkamp
๐ Fiction
๐
2020
๐ Sourcebooks
๐ English
โ 161 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Even as we breathe: a novel
โ Scribed by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky; Fireside Industries
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Lexington
- ISBN
- 1950564088
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. Soon, Cowney's refuge becomes a cage when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing and he finds himself accused of abduction and murder. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. After leaving the seclusion of the Cherokee reservation, he is able to explore a future free from the consequences of his family's choices and to construct a new worldview, for a time. However, prejudice and persecution in the white world of the...
โฆ Subjects
Fiction
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