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Song of the shank : a novel
Title:
Song of the shank : a novel
Author:
Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- , author.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014]

©2014
Physical Description:
570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Summary:
"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page 4 of cover.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781555976804
Format :
Book