The braid
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2006 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
23,750 words, Guess
Page Count
95 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebraidfros00fros
- ISBN-100374309620
- ISBN-139780374309626
- LibraryThing1776583
- Goodreads589835
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- Library of Congress Control Number2005040148
- Open LibraryOL23275569M
Description
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
Description
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay. Each sister - Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and Sarah, who hides so she can stay behind with her grandmother - carries a length of the other's hair braided with her own. The braid binds them together when they are worlds apart and reminds them of who they used to be before they were evicted from the Western Isles, where their family had lived for many generations.
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- Juvenile fiction
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