LEADER 00000nim a22005055a 4500 003 MWT 005 20200128025800.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 200125s2019 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9780062891785 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 0062891782 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ hpc_9780062891785_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT12196727 037 12196727|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 813/.6|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Gamble, Terry,|eauthor. 245 14 The eulogist|h[Hoopla electronic resource]. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bHarperAudio,|c2019. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 29 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Performed by Cassandra Campbell. 520 From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish-American family. Cheated out of their family estate in Northern Ireland after the Napoleonic Wars, the Givens family arrives in America in 1819. But in coming to this new land, they have lost nearly everything. Making their way west they settle in Cincinnati, a burgeoning town on the banks of the mighty Ohio River whose rise, like the Givenses' own, will be fashioned by the colliding forces of Jacksonian populism, religious evangelism, industrial capitalism, and the struggle for emancipation. After losing their mother in childbirth and their father to a riverboat headed for New Orleans, James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves. Ambitious James eventually marries into a prosperous family, builds a successful business, and rises in Cincinnati society. Taken by the spirit and wanderlust, Erasmus becomes an itinerant preacher, finding passion and heartbreak as he seeks God. Independent-minded Olivia, seemingly destined for spinsterhood, enters into a surprising partnership and marriage with Silas Orpheus, a local doctor who spurns social mores. When her husband suddenly dies from an infection, Olivia travels to his family home in Kentucky, where she meets his estranged brother and encounters the horrors of slavery firsthand. After abetting the escape of one slave, Olivia is forced to confront the status of a young woman named Tilly, another slave owned by Olivia's brother-in-law. When her attempt to help Tilly ends in disaster, Olivia tracks down Erasmus, who has begun smuggling runaways across the river-the borderline between freedom and slavery. As the years pass, this family of immigrants initially indifferent to slavery will actively work for its end-performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Irish Americans|vFiction. 650 0 Immigrants|vFiction. 650 0 Siblings|vFiction. 650 0 Slavery|vFiction. 651 0 Ohio|xHistory|y19th century|vFiction. 655 7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 700 1 Campbell, Cassandra,|enarrator. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 12196727?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ hpc_9780062891785_180.jpeg