Large Print Book
Sunflower sisters : a novel / Martha Hall Kelly.
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593398685 (large print ; paperback)
- ISBN: 0593398688 (large print ; paperback)
- Physical Description: 742 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-736). |
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| Subject: | United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Fiction. Women slaves > Fiction. Nurses > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Slaveholders > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. Plantations > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Large print books. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | LT KELLY M (Text) | 33126025012141 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | LT KELLY M (Text) | 33126024239554 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
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Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠Martha Hall Kellyâs million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferridayâs ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists.
âAn exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them.ââLisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
Georgeanna âGeorgeyâ Woolsey isnât meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort.
In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escapeâbut only by abandoning the family she loves.
Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves.
Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City, to the horrors of the battlefield. Itâs a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty, a story still so relevant today.