River Sing Me Home: A Novel by Eleanor Shearer Christmas Now someone from her mother's

Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate

As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him

reliving her sixteenth birthday

Under Pratt’s harsh treatment

transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful

River Sing Me Home: A Novel by Eleanor Shearer Christmas Now someone from her mother'sThe master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel