The release date for the English version of 'River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick' by
Eleanor Shearer is Aug 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
SELECTED BY THE GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUBThis beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” ( The Observer ).
"A compelling book that delves into the true definitions of freedom and family."Marie Benedict, writer of The Personal Librarian and a New York Times bestseller book
Her search begins with an ending.…
The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. The life they have always led is simply called freedom. Rachel then flees.
She starts a frantic effort to locate her children—the five who survived birth and were sold—away from Providence. Do any of these still exist today? Rachel must be aware. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. Even if the response is more than she can handle, she is propelled forward by the conviction that a mother cannot be really free without knowing what has become of her children. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. Above all, however, is the tale of Rachel and the incredible lengths a mother would go to in order to locate her children—and her freedom.