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Maggie Thompson
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Kalela Williams
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"Once begun, listeners will find narrator Maggie Thompson unstoppable."—School Library Journal (Starred Review)
Noni Reid has grown up in the shadow of her mother, Dr. Radiance Castine, renowned scholar of Black literature, who is alarmingly perfect at just about everything.
When Dr. Castine takes a job as the president of the prestigious Stonepost College in rural Virginia, Noni is forced to leave her New England home and, most importantly, a prime internship and her friends. She and her mother move into the “big house” on Tangleroot Plantation.
Tangleroot was built by one of Noni’s ancestors, an enslaved man named Cuffee Fortune—who Dr. Castine believes was also the original founder of Stonepost College, and that the school was originally formed for Black students. Dr. Castine spends much of her time trying to piece together enough undeniable truth in order to change the name of the school in Cuffee’s honor—and to force the university to reckon with its own racist past.
Meanwhile, Noni hates everything about her new home, but finds herself morbidly fascinated by the white, slaveholding family who once lived in it. Slowly, she begins to unpeel the layers of sinister history that envelop her Virginia town, her mother’s workplace, her ancestry—and her life story as she knew it. Through it all, she must navigate the ancient prejudices of the citizens in her small town, and ultimately, she finds herself both affirming her mother’s position and her own—but also discovering a secret that changes everything.
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An INDIES INTRODUCE Selection
A Junior Library Guild Selection
★ "In this mystery set in the rural South, a teen from Wellesley, Massachusetts, faces racist legacies and the enduring implications of enslavement. .... Each well-chosen detail Williams includes of Noni’s daily life, quest for autonomy, and search for answers is essential to this coming-of-age story. Racism, past and present, adds palpable tension as Noni brings her family’s true history to light and reckons with her own sense of identity. A gripping and heartbreaking debut."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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- Julia Johnson
- 11-19-24
Amazing Experience
The story is beautiful and the narration is one of the best I’ve heard in a very, very long time.
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- Rebekah
- 12-11-24
Such an incredible story!
It didn’t take long to get engrossed into the story at all. It was brilliantly written. I also learned some incredible history as well!
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