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New Orleans - 1875
Effie remembers nothing of her life before showing up at the Union camp at the age of 7. After being raised by an Union army surgeon and his wife, Effie returns to the South as a freedwoman. There she earns her living as an embalmer for a local white undertaker.
Political turmoil, snippets of Effie's memories as she learns about her past, and work of an embalmer, all meld together to make another very good book by Ms. Skenandore. An even more moving novel by this author is "Beneath Earth and Sky"
Goodreads says:
Tall and serious, Effie keeps her distance from the other girls in her boarding house, holding tight to the satisfaction she finds in her work. But despite her reticence, two encounters-with a charismatic state legislator named Samson Greene, and a beautiful young Creole, Adeline-introduce her to new worlds of protests and activism, of soirees and social ambition. Effie decides to seek out the past she has blocked from her memory and try to trace her kin. As her hopes are tested by betrayal, and New Orleans grapples with violence and growing racial turmoil, Effie faces loss and heartache, but also a chance to finally find her place . . .
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