
The Mapmaker's Children
A Novel
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Sarah McCoy
From The New York Times best-selling author of The Baker's Daughter and Marilla of Green Gables, a story of family, love, and courage
When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can’t bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah faces difficult sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril.
Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the root cellar - the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger, and deliverance.
Ingeniously plotted to a riveting end, Sarah and Eden’s woven lives connect the past to the present, forcing each of them to define courage, family, love, and legacy in a new way.
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Critic reviews
"I love the way this novel connects the past to the present. At first, these two heroines from different centuries seem to have little in common. But defining moments of bravery and resilience echo across generations for a truly satisfying story." (Laura Moriarty, New York Times best-selling author of The Chaperone)
"Poignant and deeply absorbing. McCoy weaves this moving tale of two women finding their way with style and thoughtfulness." (Madeline Miller, New York Times best-selling author of Orange Prize winner The Song of Achilles)
"Sarah McCoy has illuminated a forgotten corner of American history with her signature empathy and spirit." (Mary Doria Russell, author of Doc and Epitaph)
"Linking a contemporary woman named Eden with the daughter of abolitionist John Brown is a provocative idea, and McCoy has the skills to pull off something talk-worthy." (Library Journal, Hot Book Club Reads for Summer 2015)
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Excellent In Every Way
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Good story, but not as good as The Baker’s Daughter
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Great Storyline
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Like The Baker's Daughter, The Mapmaker's Children straddles the past and the present. And, like the Baker's Daughter, this book's historical passages are much more riveting than its contemporary ones.
I enjoyed Sarah's experiences as a mapmaker, how she made presumptions and assumed things and fell on her face and fought for what she needed.
I could never wrap my head around Eden, the contemporary heroine, her singleminded determination for a child. And SO many characters were called Mr. and Ms. and I felt like I was in a children's story hour, which was disappointing for such a talented author.
All narrators were quite pleasant to listen to; though I wish a male narrator had been chosen to read letters from male characters, or newspaper articles and such... but that opinion is my own.
Overall, this book was an interesting way to pass the time. Sarah McCoy is a writer to watch, though I wish her contemporary characters would get out of the way so that her historical ones can shine through on their own.
Family and History
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Great story
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Half Great
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Compelling, Beautiful and Clevar
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So detailed!
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pretty good
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