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Marsha Hunt
$9.95 / Paperback
ISBN 045227618
Plume (Penguin Group)
Fiction
The time is 1913-fifty years after Lincoln freed the
slaves. But in the genteel
community of Germantown, Pennsylvania, freedom is the hollowest of words.
Certainly there is no freedom from the shackles of oppression
for Theodore "Teenotchy" sins, a black stable-boy at the elegant
Holybrook manor, an enclave of unquestioned privilege.
He is haunted by the memory of his mother and the terrible violation of
her death. He is shadowed as well by the shame of his birth-a shame he doesn't
understand but forever feels. He
seeks only to fade into the invisibility the town is willing to grant him, until
Alexander Blake, a young Englishman with a secret shame of his own, forces
Teenotchy to confront his destiny and himself.
