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Dessa Rose

By: Sherley Anne Williams
Narrated by: Ruby Dee
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This is the story of an extraordinary friendship between two remarkable women, both caught in the shadow of slavery in the 19th-century South. One is an escaped black slave under sentence of death; the other is white, yet committed to end the horrors her neighbors accept as a matter of course. Ruby Dee's passionate and sensitive readings gives a poignant sense of reality to this magnificent novel of courage, daring and love.

©1999 Sherley A. Williams (P)2009 Phoenix
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she can perform!

the theatrical element made the book move off page and can make the minds eye take over the senses. I want to listen again!

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Heartfelt and realistic journey into what it meant to be a slave. Only disappointment was it was too short.

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INCREDIBLE

Sherley's language is so sensorial, I feel like I am enveloped in the experience. Her story of Dessa Rose is also so historically meaningful-- because it is simply important to understand the Dynamics involved in the slave trade- experience in our history of the United States. The story itself is gripping, and breathtaking. I was engrossed in the characters; their growth and relationships; and the "What's going to happen??" urgency. Now a favorite book. Greatness.

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