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Set in the Five Points neighbourhood of New York City in the years 1857-1863, when America's attitudes towards people of colour and slavery shifted - painfully, transformationally - to the point where a war that began to restore the union becomes one that owes much to black fighting regiments, and common cause grows for the abolition of slavery. We experience the daily life of Five Points through the eyes of Theo, aged 7 at the start of the book and 13 at its close. Theo is half Black and half Irish, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents. Through her eyes we see everything from P.T. Barnum's circus to the Draft Riots that tore NYC asunder, and the daily maelstrom of work and camaraderie and hardship necessary just to survive in Five Points.
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Moon And The Mars, Kia Corthron
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Moon And The Mars
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kia Corthron
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press UK
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 704
- ISBN10
- 0995580790
- ISBN13
- 9780995580794
- Series
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Set in the Five Points neighbourhood of New York City in the years 1857-1863, when America's attitudes towards people of colour and slavery shifted - painfully, transformationally - to the point where a war that began to restore the union becomes one that owes much to black fighting regiments, and common cause grows for the abolition of slavery. We experience the daily life of Five Points through the eyes of Theo, aged 7 at the start of the book and 13 at its close. Theo is half Black and half Irish, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents. Through her eyes we see everything from P.T. Barnum's circus to the Draft Riots that tore NYC asunder, and the daily maelstrom of work and camaraderie and hardship necessary just to survive in Five Points.