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Stand The Storm: A Novel
by Breena Clarke

    Publication Date: Jul 28, 2008
    List Price: $24.99
    Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780316007047
    Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
    Publisher: Hachette Book Group
    Parent Company: Lagardère Group

    Description of Stand The Storm: A Novel by Breena Clarke


    Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor’s shop and laundry, is supposed to be a "promised land" for former slaves but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people.
    The remarkable emotional energy with which the Coatses wage their daily battles-as they negotiate with their former owner, as they assist escaped slaves en route to freedom, as they prepare for the encroaching war, and as they strive to love each other enough-is what propels STAND THE STORM and makes the novel’s tragic denouement so devastating.



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