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(0)Amanda Skenandore
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Amanda Skenandore's provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging.
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat....
On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Effie Jones, a former slave who has returned south to New Orleans to work as an embalmer, finds a new world of protest, activism, and social ambition as she seeks out a past she has blocked from her memory.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alma Mitchel convinces her lawyer husband to defend her Native American childhood friend when he is accused of murdering a federal agent, which forces her to revisit the past and confront secrets from a childhood spent in the wake of the Indian Wars.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920's socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne...