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River Sing Me Home
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Narrated by: Debra Michaels, Eleonor Shearer
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” (The Observer).
Named One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
“A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined”—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian
Her search begins with an ending.…
The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.
Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children...and her freedom.
What the critics say
"Shearer’s dynamic debut… weaves together a historical accounting of the perils of British emancipation with a moving interrogation of what freedom really means."—Time
“A moving and dynamic novel…. Shearer treats such a difficult and underexamined part of history deftly and honourably. She sieves through it to give us what all good novelists do; the essential without sacrificing the specific and the historical.”—The Guardian (UK)
"An extraordinary odyssey of pain, love, and homecoming as Rachel searches not only for her children but for her own past, her own independence, and her own soul. A haunting and powerful debut.”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye
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- KateS
- 2023-05-14
I really wanted to love this book
But i didn’t…
I don’t wanna say too much because I don’t want to spoil it for anybody who has yet to read this book, but most of the events that happened were a bit too “convenient” and not believable enough for me. I think the could have really developed the story lines better.
I will say, though that I really loved her character development and the way she described pretty much everything made me really be able to “see” everything in mind. As well, the narrator was amazing!
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- Trisha
- 2023-07-29
A great story
The story engaging and beautifully written. The narrator was a pleasure to listen to. I really enjoyed learning about the slave trade and history of slavery in the Carribean.
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