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A lyrical and spellbinding story of love, loss, and war from a standout new voice in fiction. Katy Simpson Smith has already been acclaimed as an 'heir apparent to to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson' North Carolina, 1793. When nine-year-old Tab catches yellow fever, her father John steals her onto a boat, hoping the sea air will cure his only child. For comfort, he tells Tab stories about her mother Helen, who died in childbirth. Two decades earlier, Helen is given a slave girl for her tenth birthday. Moll's arrival is meant to teach Helen discipline but soon the girls are close confidantes, until the arrival of John, a pirate turned soldier. And as the town is threatened in the dying embers of the Revolution, Helen must decide between a life of security on the family plantation and a sea adventure with the man she loves.
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The Story Of Land And Sea, Katy Simpson Smith
- Language
- Released
- 2015
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Story Of Land And Sea
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Katy Simpson Smith
- Publisher
- HARPER COLLINS
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0007564007
- ISBN13
- 9780007564002
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, USA, Military Fiction, Wars, Death, Past, Loss, Mourning, Seas and Oceans, 18th century, Fate, American South, Slavery, North Carolina
- Rating
- 2.8 out of 5
- Description
- A lyrical and spellbinding story of love, loss, and war from a standout new voice in fiction. Katy Simpson Smith has already been acclaimed as an 'heir apparent to to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson' North Carolina, 1793. When nine-year-old Tab catches yellow fever, her father John steals her onto a boat, hoping the sea air will cure his only child. For comfort, he tells Tab stories about her mother Helen, who died in childbirth. Two decades earlier, Helen is given a slave girl for her tenth birthday. Moll's arrival is meant to teach Helen discipline but soon the girls are close confidantes, until the arrival of John, a pirate turned soldier. And as the town is threatened in the dying embers of the Revolution, Helen must decide between a life of security on the family plantation and a sea adventure with the man she loves.