The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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 post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students' lives. "An absorbing historical . ....show moreBUY THE BOOK
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This is the first book I’ve read from this author and now I want to read more. I absolutely loved this book. Well written and such a great story.
Lisa Wingate follows up her New York Times bestselling Before We Were Yours with another exquisite and deeply affecting fictional story inspired by actual events. The story opens in 1875 with Hannie, an eighteen-year-old former slave, still residing on the Louisiana plantation, Goswood Grove, where she was held against her will. She and her fellow former slaves are close to completing the ten-year sharecropper contract with "Old Mister" Gossett ...read more
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