Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery & Freedom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393350036)

Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason, as her old friend Grace MacDonald Pollocke discovers, is far more personal. Grace, now a Philadelphia portrait painter, undertakes a perilous investigation that leads to the discovery of old sins and crimes, and the commission of new ones. What laws may be broken--what sins and crimes committed--in the service of a higher justice? Deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury . . . even murder?

This novel thrillingly evokes a nineteenth-century America not so different from the present: a time of stunning new technologies and financial collapse, when religious and racial views collided with avowed principles of morality and law.

Author: Peg Kingman
ISBN-10: 0393350037
ISBN-13: 9780393350036
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2010
Pages: 442
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.98d