In exchange for a wedding ring, Rachel, hired help in an early twentieth-century Chicago boardinghouse, agrees to give Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's son, her share of 160 acres from the Homestead Act, and together they stake a claim in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands.
Reminiscent of The Color Purple as well as the frontier novels of Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree tells the little-known story of African American pioneers and gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the strength and spirit that built America.
作者簡介
Ann Weisgarber was born and raised in Kettering, Ohio. She holds a master's degree in sociology and has worked as a social worker and taught high school and college. She has lived in Boston and Des Moines and now divides her time between Sugar Land and Galveston, Texas.
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is Ann Weisgarber's first novel. It was longlisted for the Orange Prize, was a finalist for the Orange Award for New Writers, and won the Texas
Institute of Letters' Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction.
