Original Sins : A Novel of Slavery and Freedom (Hardcover) 9780393065473

from hellonicole

Peg Kingman very obviously did her research for "Original Sins", and there are times when it feels like she was trying to fit in all of the details of that research, even when they seemed to drag the story off-track. That aside, it is a well written book that is thorough in its telling, though at...

from sjmccreary

Grace MacDonald Pollacke has come to live in Philadelphia, the home of her husband's family, after spending most of her life in the far east. Originally Scottish, she fled with her step-mother to India to escape attempts by her late mother's American family to force her to leave her home and live...

from thelittlereader

i was drawn to this book by the cover and the synopsis promising deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury and possible murder in the historical context of slavery and freedom. aside from that, i really didn't know what to expect. to be honest, the synopsis didn't really do a great job of preparing me for ...

from joririchardson

"Original Sins" is the story of Grace Pollocke, a married woman in 1800's Pennsylvania who is unexpectedly reunited with a childhood friend - Anibadh, who fled from a life of slavery in Virginia years ago. Why would a runaway slave return and risk being discovered? When Grace asks herself the sam...

from pbadeer

Much to my surprise, "Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom" was NOT about the Civil War. In a varying approach to the subject of slavery, the author, Peg Kingman, places the narrative about 20 years before the start of the war, and follows from a non-slave owner's point of view (Grace Po...