Reviews Of The Wedding Gift By Bodden

24 2013 A debut novel about slaves and masters mistresses and wives set in antebellum Alabama.

Reviews of the wedding gift by bodden. Three months later the plantation owners wife gives birth to her daughter Clarissa. Reviews The Wedding Gift Reading Group Guide Reading Group Guide Discussion Questions The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden 1List the main themes of THE WEDDING GIFT. If you buy the.

In August a select group of readers who participated in one of our special contests won copies of THE WEDDING GIFT Marlen Suyapa Boddens debut novel. MARLEN SUYAPA BODDEN is a lawyer at The Legal Aid Society in New York City the nations oldest and largest law firm for the poor. In this stunning debut Marlen Suyapa Bodden effortlessly transports the reader to 1852 Alabama where slavery and racism may rule the day but everything isnt as black and.

Sarah Campbell a young mulatto slave and. Set in the Deep South pre Gone with the Wind and the Civil War The Wedding Gift is a compelling and powerful story of. March 31 2015 Genres.

The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden is a poignant portrayal of what it means to be free in Americans deep south. A young slave woman called. Buy The Wedding Gift by Suyapa Bodden Marlen ISBN.

The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden Published by St. She drew on her knowledge of modern and historical slavery human trafficking and human rights abuses to write The Wedding Gift. It is a tale of two half-sisters one born from a black slave and the other born from a white southern belle.

Set in Alabama in 1852 the story follows affluent white plantation heir Clarissa Allen and her enslaved mixed-race half-sister Sarah Campbell. Fiction Historical Fiction Womens Fiction Paperback. March 31 2015 Genres.