Its short chapters and expert pacing seize the reader’s attention, and its young freedom-seeking protagonists are instantly engaging. Luqman-Dawson’s thorough research into such communities rings clear on every page of the novel.įreewater is also a gripping, emotional story. In a detailed author’s note, Luqman-Dawson describes how the book’s titular community was inspired by real “spaces of Black resistance,” particularly those within the Great Dismal Swamp in eastern Virginia and North Carolina. Journalist and historian Amina Luqman-Dawson’s debut middle grade novel, Freewater, is historical fiction at its finest. When the safety and shelter Freewater offers are threatened, Homer must do everything he can to survive while holding out hope of reuniting his family. Deep in the swamp, the siblings are discovered by Suleman, who brings them to Freewater, a hidden, thriving community composed of formerly enslaved people and children born free. Homer tries to memorize their route so that he can eventually make his way back to Southerland to rescue Mama. Together, Homer and Ada make their way through the unfamiliar swampy landscape. Tragically, Mama is left behind, but they follow her final instructions: “Get to the river.” Under a moonlit sky, 12-year-old Homer and his little sister, Ada, run away from Southerland Plantation, frantically scrambling to stay ahead of the dogs unleashed by their enslaver to track them.
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Being extremely beautiful served only to make her reputation worse people practically rubbed their hands in glee when recounting the latest scandal in which Angelique was center stage. Her exploits were the stuff of community legend: she’d been known as a holy terror since kindergarten. In a family full of tall, beautifully mannered, brilliant sons with magnificent wives, Angelique was the only female and the oddball the “mean” Deveraux with the nasty temper and few redeeming social graces, and, of course, no husband or children. She’d have felt awkward in any case as she was the proverbial black sheep of the Deveraux clan, but the fact that she’d been living in Detroit for six months made her feel even more like a stranger in her own family. Everything there was warm and wonderful with the sounds and smells of Christmas, and Angelique had never felt less like celebrating. And she was also taking her own sweet time because she didn’t want to go back to her mother’s house just yet. But she was very familiar with the area she knew it like the back of her hand and it felt safe. She drove like a little old lady because she was only truly comfortable in her own car, a Saab. May this holiday season be your very best.Īngelique Deveraux drove slowly through the familiar streets of her parents’ neighborhood in Atlanta. Many another gothic novel has started in very much the same way. Rather than a desolate castle on a rocky coastline, the focus is instead a grove of cypress trees surrounding a bathing pool behind a huge manor house.Ī young girl comes to be the tutor of a young motherless boy, his aloof father and two servants the only other occupants of a house that’s full of secrets. From the present day when the previous book took place, we shift in time to some unidentified period in the past. We move from Cornwall (see my earlier review of The Shadow of Polperro, by Frances Cowen) to Connecticut. As the author of a long armful of detective novels, his primary private eye character - and probably his favorite - was the inimitable Ed Noon, the books in which he appeared I should really unpack and read again soon.Īvallone as Noone stays totally within the restrictions of the gothic romance novel, however, as practiced in the 60s and 70s, and except for sheer readability, perhaps, there’s nothing in this tale’s style of writing to suggest that it was Avallone who was really at the wheel. Reprinted at least once.Įdwina Noone was, as you might have guessed, if you didn’t already know, one of the pseudonyms of Michael Avallone, one of more prolific writers of the 60s and 70s. Ace K-213, paperback original 1st printing, 1965. Unlike some of the previous novels, this story doesn’t require preexisting knowledge of the series, easily catching up fans and new readers alike with capsule introductions to Cress and other members of the Rampion crew in a prologue. 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Hester Prynne and Pearl in the foreground, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth in background. The Scarlet Letter by Hugues Merle (1861). Lawrence called it a "perfect work of the American imagination". Critics have described The Scarlet Letter as a masterwork, and novelist D. The novel has inspired numerous film, television, and stage adaptations. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work of American literature. The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in the United States. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin and guilt. As punishment, she must wear a scarlet letter 'A' (for " adultery"). Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. 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