The Sweetest Fruits: a Novel

✍ Scribed by Monique Truong

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 179 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0735221030

✦ Synopsis

**An ingenious retelling in novel form of Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn's migratory life through the voices of the women who knew him best, and who testify to their own remarkable journeys

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by** Lit Huband The Millions**

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"A sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention." --Anthony Marra**
A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai's daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English...