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Song Yet Sung

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FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE


'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web'
Washington Post

'Gripping'
New York Times

In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland's eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves and free blacks.

Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and armed with 'the Code' - a fiercely guarded cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run.

Filled with rich, true details, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, dreams of tomorrow and unexpected kindness, from the National Book Award-winning novelist James McBride.

Critics Review

McBride has fashioned a myth of retribution and sacrifice that recalls both William Faulkner's sagas of blighted generations and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Explosively dramatic
Kirkus (starred review)
McBride keeps the suspense high as he raises troubling questions about slavery's legacy, the price of freedom and what it means to be human
People
Powerful . . . A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web
Washington Post Book World
Gripping, affecting, and beautifully paced, Song Yet Sung illuminates, in the most dramatic fashion, a deeply troubled, vastly complicated moment in American history
O, The Oprah Magazine
Engrossing
Seattle Times
Author James McBride
Narrator Leslie Uggams
Duration 10 hours and 45 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781399634687
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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