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008 980417s1998 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3553.O5874$bW35 1998
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aCooper, J. California.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85289615
245 14 $aThe wake of the wind /$cJ. California Cooper.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c1998.
300 $a373 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aSet in the South in the waning years of the Civil War, this is the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and their family set out in search of hope and a piece of land they can work and call their own. Miraculously, they manage not only to survive, but to succeed - their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others.
520 8 $aBut the South during Reconstruction is not a place that takes kindly to the achievements of former slaves, and as lynchings and injustice become a plague across the region, time and again they must make the anguished decision to leave their land in search of a safer place.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zTexas$vFiction.
651 0 $aTexas$xHistory$y1846-1950$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3553.O5874$iW35 1998