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Author Morrison, Toni.

Title A mercy / Toni Morrison.

Edition First Vintage International edition.
Publication Info. New York : Vintage International, 2009.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3008550~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F MORRISON    AVAILABLE
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F MORRISON    AVAILABLE
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Description 195 pages ; 21 cm
eth African Americans lcdgt
nat Americans lcdgt
Note Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.1 7 128034
Summary "In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh, he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives." "A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter-a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment."--BOOK JACKET
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.1 7 128034
Subject African American girls -- Fiction.
Interracial adoption -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780307276766 paperback
0307276767 paperback
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