Song of the Shank

Name: Song of the Shank
Author: Jeffrey Renard Allen

Jeffrey Renard Allen

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Song of the Shank

Jeffrey Renard Allen

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#3145 of 8,085 books · #474 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2015).

In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother.

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