Roadwalkers

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453247259

<DIV><B>From the author of <I>The Keepers of the </I>House, a &ldquo;beautiful&rdquo; novel following a black mother and daughter through the Great Depression and Civil Rights era (<I>The Boston Globe</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Mary is an orphaned, homeless, African American child, abandoned by the rest of her family and left to care for her younger brother. She becomes a &ldquo;roadwalker,&rdquo; a nomad who wanders across the rural south and quickly learns to rely on herself to survive.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> When she grows up to become a successful artist and a designer, she has a daughter of her own, Nanda, and she&rsquo;s determined to hold her child close. But when Nanda is accepted into an elite school on the East Coast, integrating the all-white Catholic girls&rsquo; academy, Mary finds she can&rsquo;t keep some of the world&rsquo;s cruel realities at bay forever.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Told from the perspective of both mother and daughter, <I>Roadwalkers</I> is the story of a special bond forged by savage history, and a tale of extraordinary loyalty and sacrifice. From a National Book Award finalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, it is &ldquo;a bold novel [that] seduces us with its vigorous prose, enthralls us with its narrative&mdash;and disquiets us with its defiance of our expectations&rdquo; (<I>The New York Times Book Review</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /><I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I></DIV>