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In Katy Simpson Smith's The Weeds, two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for ...

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Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father's stories about...

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Two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, apprenticed herself to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a...

Only Katy Simpson Smith could have written a novel of such elegance, emotional power, and grace. The Everlasting, a quadruple love story spanning two millennia, is no less than the story of love itself—its frustrations and thrills, its blunders and transcendent glories. Meraviglioso."—Nathaniel Rich, author of King ZenoFrom a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive literary work of historical fiction, set in Rome in four d...

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White, black, and Native American women in the early South often viewed motherhood as a composite of roles, ranging from teacher and nurse to farmer and politician. Within a multicultural landscape, mothers drew advice and consolation from female networks, broader intellec-tual currents, and an understanding of their own multifaceted identities to devise their own standards for child rearing. In this way, by con-structing, interpreting, and de...

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Ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father's stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never knew. Since the loss of his wife, Helen, John has remained land-bound, but when Tab contracts yellow fever, he takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda, hoping the salt air will heal her.Years before, Helen herself was raised by a widowed father. Asa, the devout owner of a small plantatio...

Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father's stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never knew. Since the loss of his wife, Helen, John has remained land-bound for their daughter, but when Tab contracts yellow fever, he turns to the sea once more. Desperate to save his daughter, he takes her aboard a sloop bound for Bermuda, hoping the salt air will heal her....

White, black, and Native American women in the early South often viewed motherhood as a composite of roles, ranging from teacher and nurse to farmer and politician. Within a multicultural landscape, mothers drew advice and consolation from female networks, broader intellectual currents, and an understanding of their own multifaceted identities to devise their own standards for child rearing. In this way, by constructing, interpreting, and defe...

In 1788 three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama: Cat, an emotionally scarred white man, Bob, a garrulous black man fleeing slavery, and Istillicha, who seeks retribution after being edged out of his Creek town’s leadership.In the few days they spend together, the makeshift trio commits a shocking murder that soon has the forces of the law bearing down upon them. Sent to pick up their trail, a probing French tracker name...

In 1788 three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama: Cat, an emotionally scarred white man, Bob, a garrulous black man fleeing slavery, and Istillicha, who seeks retribution after being edged out of his Creek town’s leadership.In the few days they spend together, the makeshift trio commits a shocking murder that soon has the forces of the law bearing down upon them. Sent to pick up their trail, a probing French tracker name...

In 1788 three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama: Cat, an emotionally scarred white man, Bob, a talkative black man fleeing slavery, and Istillicha, who seeks retribution after being edged out of his Creek town’s leadership.In the few days they spend together, the makeshift trio commits a shocking murder that soon has the forces of the law bearing down upon them. Sent to pick up their trail, a probing French tracker name...

North Carolina, 1771. Helen is tien jaar als ze van haar vader op de plantage een slavin cadeau krijgt, Moll. De meisjes zijn even oud en er ontstaat een vreemde, maar hechte vriendschap. Tot duidelijk wordt dat ze voorbestemd zijn voor een heel ander leven. Terwijl Moll wordt uitgehuwelijkt en op de plantage moet blijven, ontmoet Helen een zeeman, John, en kiest voor een avontuurlijk leven op zee. Tien jaar later komt alleen John terug naar ...