by Breena Clarke · Back Bay Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316899987
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«River, Cross My Heart» is a historical novel by Breena Clarke, published by Back Bay Books in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Georgetown, Washington D.C., 1925: the drowning death of five-year-old Clara Bynum shakes the African American community. The narrative follows the effect of the loss on her parents, Alice and Willie, between their rural roots and new urban life, and on Johnnie Mae, her ten-year-old sister, who faces grief and the confusion of growing up.
Debut novel by Breena Clarke, an Oprah's Book Club selection and winner of the ALA Alex Award in 2000.
For readers of historical fiction and African American fiction seeking stories about grief, family, and coming of age in 1920s Washington.
