Blonde Roots
- ISBN-10
- 1594488630
- ISBN-13
- 9781594488634
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Bernardine Evaristo
Description
In an alternate world in which Africans enslaved Europeans, Doris, an Englishwoman, is captured and taken to the New World, where the hardships she endures as a slave are offset by dreams of escape and home.
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