A million nightingales

Susan Straight

first published 2006 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 368 pages

A haunting, beautifully written novel set in early-nineteenth-century Louisiana: the tale of a slave girl's journey--emotional and physical--from captivity to freedom.Susan Straight has been called "a writer of exceptional gifts and grace" (Joyce Carol Oates). In A Million Nightingales she brings those gifts to bear on the story of Moinette, daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew. While her m...

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A Million Nightingales edition · 2008 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307488268
Million Nightingales edition · 2007 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 368 pages · 9781400095599
A million nightingales edition · 2006 · Pantheon Books · 340 pages

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