Bibliograph

The mapmaker's children, a novel, Sarah McCoy

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Label

The mapmaker's children, a novel, Sarah McCoy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The mapmaker's children

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

885313094

Responsibility statement

Sarah McCoy

Sub title

a novel

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"--, Provided by publisher

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Map-maker's children, a novel

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