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1) In the fall
Author
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
542 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the twilight of the Civil War, Leah, an escaped slave, discovers Norman Pelham, a wounded soldier who lies dying in a battlefield outside Richmond. After she nurses him back to health, Norman brings her to his family farm in Vermont as his wife, and they begin a family. Now the mother of three, and however begrudgingly, accepted in the community, Leah travels back to the South of her birth and returns with a secret that threatens to destroy what...