Bibliograph

Scattered seed, a novel, Francine Thomas Howard

Type

Label

Scattered seed, a novel, Francine Thomas Howard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Scattered seed

Oclc number

1273914776

Responsibility statement

Francine Thomas Howard

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Timbuktu, western Africa, 1706. Folashade, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a professor of linguistics, is sent south with her older sisters, Bibi and Adaeze, to endure the painful ceremony that a girl on the cusp of womanhood is expected to. In Djenné on the banks of the Niger, the sisters' fate and that of their fellow Bambara is changed forever when they're kidnapped, marched toward grueling indignities on Goreé Island, and eventually hauled aboard an English slaver bound for the Americas. Before they are inevitably separated, Folashade, Bibi, and Adaeze plot to keep their memories alive

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