The mapmaker's children : a novel

McCoy, Sarah 1980- (author.).

Summary: "When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings ... Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the root cellar--the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance ... Sarah and Eden's woven lives connect the past to the present, forcing each of them to define courage, family, love, and legacy in a new way"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780385348904 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0385348908 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780385348911 (ebk.)
Physical Description: print
311 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Subject:

Cartographers Fiction
Artists Fiction
Underground Railroad Fiction
Fugitive slaves United States Fiction
United States History 19th century Fiction
Childlessness Fiction
Conception Fiction
FICTION / Historical
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Contemporary Women
Artists
Cartographers
Conception
Fugitive slaves
Underground Railroad
United States

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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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