{"id":22187,"date":"2024-10-31T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-book-of-lost-friends-a-novel\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:07:55","slug":"the-book-of-lost-friends-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-book-of-lost-friends-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post\u2013Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn absorbing historical . . . enthralling.\u201d\u2014Library Journal<\/p>\n

Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual \u201cLost Friends\u201d advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2014until 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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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Ballantine Books; First Edition (June 29, 2021)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 416 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 1984819909
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-1984819901
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.18 x 0.81 x 7.93 inches <\/p>\n

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