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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
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Synopsis
š§Audio Length = 15 hours and 6 minutesāDonāt miss this remarkable audiobookā (AudioFile) performed by a full cast! In the postāCivil War South, three women set off on a treacherous journey to Texas to rebuild their lives. Over a century later, teacher Benedetta ...
š§Audio Length = 15 hours and 6 minutes
āDonāt miss this remarkable audiobookā (AudioFile) performed by a full cast! In the postāCivil War South, three women set off on a treacherous journey to Texas to rebuild their lives. Over a century later, teacher Benedetta discovers their powerful story when she happens upon an old book. āLisa Wingate makes history come aliveā (Booklist) in this āenthralling and ultimately hearteningā listen (Library Journal).
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the postāCivil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her studentsā lives.
āAn absorbing historical ā¦ enthralling.āāLibrary Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual āLost Friendsā advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away.
Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Laviniaās Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slaveryās end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.
Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debtāuntil she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is 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 lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.
āDonāt miss this remarkable audiobookā (AudioFile) performed by a full cast! In the postāCivil War South, three women set off on a treacherous journey to Texas to rebuild their lives. Over a century later, teacher Benedetta discovers their powerful story when she happens upon an old book. āLisa Wingate makes history come aliveā (Booklist) in this āenthralling and ultimately hearteningā listen (Library Journal).
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the postāCivil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her studentsā lives.
āAn absorbing historical ā¦ enthralling.āāLibrary Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual āLost Friendsā advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away.
Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Laviniaās Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slaveryās end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.
Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debtāuntil she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is 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 lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.
