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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

Posted by   Published in Book Reviews, Jane Smiley

What if you were an anti-slavery tomboy in the United States, in the years leading up to the Civil War, and lived in a pro-slavery state? Things would get pretty hairy pretty quickly and that’s just what happens in The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. Lydia Newton is married off to Thomas Newton [...]

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