| Description: | An Enthralling Tale Of A Secret Resistance Movement Run By Black Women In Pre-Civil War New Orleans --Time Stirring In Telling This Important, Neglected History With Imagination-Fueled Research, The American Daughters Offers An Inspiring Story Of People Who Show A Way Forward With Their Perseverance, Bravery And Love --The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A Kirkus Reviews Best Book Of The Year Ady, A Curious, Sharp-Witted Girl, And Her Fierce Mother, Sanite, Are Inseparable Enslaved To A Businessman In The French Quarter Of New Orleans, The Pair Spend Their Days Reminiscing About Their Family's Rebellious And Storied History And Dreaming Of A Loving Future When Mother And Daughter Are Separated, Ady Is Left Hopeless And Directionless Until She Stumbles Into The Mockingbird Inn And Meets Lenore, A Free Black Woman With Whom She Becomes Fast Friends Lenore Invites Ady To Join A Clandestine Society Of Spies Called The Daughters With The Courage Instilled In Her By Sanite--And With Help From These Strong Women--Ady Learns How To Put Herself First So Begins Her Journey Toward Liberation And Imagining A New Future The American Daughters Is A Novel Of Hope And Triumph That Reminds Us What Is Possible When A Community Bands Together To Fight For Their Freedom |
