 The Book of Lost Friends: A NovelAuthor: Lisa Wingate
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Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three
young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the
pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate
free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries
private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following
dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost
a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of inheritance
and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and eight
siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing
question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie
the seemingly 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
debt--until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine,
Louisiana, seems 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 lies the century-old history of
three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change
everything.
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