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Fingersmith
2024 || Paperback || Sarah Waters || Little, Brown Book Group
From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets
Beloved
1997 || Paperback || Toni Morrison || Vintage Publishing
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love.
My Antonia
2019 || Paperback || Willa Cather || Vintage Publishing
Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family.
Yet Jim will never forget Ántoni...