The Mapmaker's Children |
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| Author:
| McCoy, Sarah |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4104-8345-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
| Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.99 |
Book Description:
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A National Book Award-winning AuthorSarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, hiding her maps within her paintings. Unable to bear children, Sarah faces sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril. Eden, a modern woman desperate to have a child, moves to an old house and discovers the remains of an Underground Railroad doll in the root cellar - a doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance.
A National Book Award-winning AuthorSarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, hiding her maps within her paintings. Unable to bear children, Sarah faces sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril. Eden, a modern woman desperate to have a child, moves to an old house and discovers the remains of an Underground Railroad doll in the root cellar - a doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance.