About The Mapmaker's Children
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Crown (May 5, 2015)
When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can’t bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah faces difficult sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril.
Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the root cellar—the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance.
Ingeniously plotted to a riveting end, Sarah and Eden’s woven lives connect the past to the present, forcing each of them to define courage, family, love, and legacy in a new way.
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Review: I read The Baker's Daughter shortly after it was released and it was one of my favorite books. I absolutely adore Sarah McCoy's writing.
Sarah McCoy does a brilliant job creating a story and blending it with history. In this story we travel further back in time to the Civil War while having a portion of the story woven in with the present.
I fell in love with this story just as quickly. I think it has to do with the "real" people that feature in the story. It really makes you want to learn more. My grandmother always said she learned something from every book she read. I really wish that she were still alive so I could share this book with her. I think she would have really appreciated this novel.
Rating: 5 flowers
About Sarah McCoy
SARAH McCOY is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of The Baker's Daughter, a 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee; the novella "The Branch of Hazel" in Grand Central; The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico; and The Mapmaker's Children (Crown, May 5, 2015).
Her work has been featured in Real Simple, The Millions, Your Health Monthly, Huffington Post and other publications. She has taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. She calls Virginia home but presently lives with her husband, an Army physician, and their dog, Gilly, in El Paso, Texas. Sarah enjoys connecting with her readers on Twitter at @SarahMMcCoy, on her Facebook Fan Page or via her website, www.sarahmccoy.com.
2 comments:
I'm so interested in reading this book. It sounds like a fascinating story!
I think I would have gotten along with your grandmother quite well - I love learning from the books I read.
Thanks for being a part of the tour!
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