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003			DLC
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008			191118s2020 nyu b 000 1 eng
010			_a2019051637
020			_a9781984819888 : HRD _c28.00
020			_a1984819887 : HRD _c28.00 _q(hardcover) _z9781984819895 _q(ebook)
037			_bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 _nSAN 201-3975
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dNjBwBT _dGCmBT
050	0	0	_aPS3573.I53165 _bB66 2020
082	0	0	_a813/.54 _223
092			_a813.5400
100	1		_aWingate, Lisa, _eauthor. _9441
245	1	4	_aThe book of lost friends : _ba novel / _cLisa Wingate.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBallantine Books, _c[2020]
300			_a388 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
520			_a"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South,and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold off. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and eight siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the seemingly limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poorrural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt--until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, seems suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lies the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen _vFiction. _95674204
650		0	_aPoverty _vFiction. _95735329
651		0	_aLouisiana _vFiction. _95695961
655		7	_aHIstorical fiction. _2gsafd _96363919
776	0	8	_iOnline version:
776	0	8	_aWingate, Lisa. _tBook of lost friends _dNew York : Ballantine Books, [2020] _z9781984819895 _w(DLC) 2019051638
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