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  • Everything We Lose

  • A Civil War Novel of Hope, Courage and Redemption
  • By: Annette Oppenlander
  • Narrated by: Alan Taylor
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Everything We Lose

By: Annette Oppenlander
Narrated by: Alan Taylor
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Two friends - one black, one white - torn apart by an attack gone wrong. One escapes into war, the other is sold into slavery.

Told from alternating viewpoints, one black and one white, Surviving the Fatherland author Annette Oppenlander delivers another stunning historical tale set against the epic backdrop of the American Civil War - a breathtaking examination of the power of hope and friendship and the endurance of the human spirit to find a way home.

Tennessee, 1861. Fifteen-year-old farm boy Adam Brown would do anything to protect his friend Tip, a slave at the neighboring plantation - even if it means fighting Nathan Billings, the rich and obnoxious landowner's son. But when it seems his attack has killed Nathan, Adam has no choice but to run away and join the Union Army under an assumed name. Together with Wes, a chatty soldier with a few secrets of his own, Adam embarks on a traumatic odyssey through the war-torn Midwest. As his soul darkens with the atrocities of war, all he wants is to go home. But in order to do that - if he survives - he must face his past.

Unbeknownst to Adam, 16-year old Tip is sold to a farmer who takes drunken pleasure in torturing his slaves. Tip quickly realizes that if he wants to survive, he must run. Ahead lie hundreds of miles of unknown country infested by slave owners, traders, starvation, and cold. And so begins a journey of escape and recapture, of brutal attacks and unexpected kindness.

When a rescue by the Underground Railroad goes terribly wrong, Tip finds himself caring for a pregnant runaway, his journey seemingly at an end. They have reached the Ohio River, a vast, watery expanse impossible to cross. It is only a matter of time before roaming slave traders will pick them up - he will never see his mother and his best friend again.

©2018 Annette Oppenlander (P)2018 Annette Oppenlander
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Unrealistic

Parts of the novel seemed unrealistic. A slave that could be killed for learning to read sends a letter to a slave on another plantation for example. Also it was disappointing that the main black female character was the stereotypical Mammy. That myth has been debunked.

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