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A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl, enslaved to a New Orleans businessman, who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Confederates and begins a journey toward liberation.
Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the pair spend their days dreaming of a loving future and reminiscing about their family’s rebellious and storied history. When mother and daughter are separated, Ady is left hopeless and directionless until she stumbles into the Mockingbird Inn and meets Lenore, a free Black woman with whom she becomes fast friends. Lenore invites Ady to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters. With the courage instilled in her by Sanite—and with help from these strong women—Ady learns how to put herself first. So begins her journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.
The American Daughters is a novel of hope and triumph that reminds us what is possible when a community bands together to fight for their freedom.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was longlisted for the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and We Cast a Shadow, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction, he has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, the Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a professor of creative writing at Louisiana State University.
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AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | History/Preservation | Author Events | Arts & Cultural |
Mon, Oct 07 | 10:00AM to 7:00PM |
Tue, Oct 08 | 10:00AM to 7:00PM |
Wed, Oct 09 | 10:00AM to 7:00PM |
Thu, Oct 10 | 10:00AM to 7:00PM |
Fri, Oct 11 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
Sat, Oct 12 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
Sun, Oct 13 | Closed |
Cita Dennis Hubbell Library is located in the Algiers Point neighborhood and offers programs and books for children, teens, and adults.
Monday – Thursday 10am – 6pm
Friday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday Closed
Monday – Thursday 10am – 7pm
Friday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday Closed