A Million Nightingales by Straight, Susan

A Million Nightingales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400095599)

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A Million Nightingales by Straight, Susan

A Million Nightingales

$18.00
A Million Nightingales by Straight, Susan

A Million Nightingales

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At fourteen she is sold, separated from her mother without a chance to say goodbye. Bright, imaginative and well aware of everything she risks, Moinette at once begins to prepare for an opportunity to escape. Inspired by a true story, A Million Nightingales portrays Moinette's experience-and the treacherous world she must navigate-with uncommon richness, intricacy, and drama.

Author: Susan Straight
ISBN-10: 140009559X
ISBN-13: 9781400095599
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2007
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.26w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/15/2007 pg. 24
By Susan Straight
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Susan Straight's novels include I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights, The Gettin Place and Highwire Moon, which was a finalist for The National Book Award. Her essays have appeared in Harper's, Salon.com, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, and on NPR's All Things Considered, as well as in women's magazines such as Real Simple and Family Circle. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's and Zoetrope, among other publications. Among her honors and awards are the California Book Prize, a Lannan Foundation Award, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and a Best American Short Story Award. Straight was born in Riverside and lives there with her three daughters.

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