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The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel
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The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel Hardcover - 2020

by Lisa Wingate

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Ballantine Books, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new historical novel: the dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives.Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away.Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.
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  • Title The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel
  • Author Lisa Wingate
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books
  • Date April 2020
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 269881
  • ISBN 9781984819888 / 1984819887
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.4 in (23.62 x 16.51 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Poverty, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019051637
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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  • Booklist, 04/01/2020, Page 29
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2020, Page 86
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/20/2020, Page 0

About the author

Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours. She is the author of over thirty novels and a nonfiction book, Before and After, co-authored with Judy Christie. Her award-winning works have been selected for state and community One Book reads throughout the country, have been published in more than forty languages, and have appeared on bestseller lists worldwide. She lives with her husband in North Texas.

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