Abraham’s Well: A Novel - Softcover

Foster, Sharon Ewell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764228870 ISBN 13: 9780764228872

Publisher: Bethany House, 2006

Synopsis

I have discovered there's Indian in my family heritage.... The time is 1838. Armentia pointed to a well on the land their Cherokee master owns. "It seems hard to believe now, son, but someday we'll have our own land. Land with a well just like this one...." Inspired by true events, authentic slave narratives, and other historical accounts, Abraham's Well is the profoundly moving story of the Black Cherokee--African Americans, both slave and free--who, along with native people, walked the Trail of Tears. It is the story of their forced removal from the Southeast to Indian Territory---modern day Oklahoma--and of the courage and faith of one woman as she struggles to overcome her desperate circumstances. And it is the story of an author who, in researching and writing, found her own way home.

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From the Back Cover:

"Foster returns to historical fiction with an evocative tale of the sticky lies and bloody promises of an often untold journey in American history--the trek of the Indian slave on The Trail of Tears. As a Christian, a woman, an African American and one who also has "Indian in her family" this book took me 1000 miles in both my heart and mind. As always, Foster's mastery of setting and language paint a family and a nation that we must never forget. This book will be required reading for all my children and their children after them. It's not to be missed."
--Marilynn Griffith, author of Pink and Made of Honor

"Sharon Ewell Foster merges little known history with fiction to pen another amazing novel with Abraham's Well. In her trademark style - rich language that makes you want to read passages again and again and descriptions that take you back two hundred years - Foster creates an engaging story that not only pulls on every one of your heart strings, but will have you talking out loud to the characters. Abraham's Well is hard to put down. Definitely, one of the best reads of the year!"
--Victoria Christopher Murray

About the Author:

SHARON EWELL FOSTER is the author of five previous novels including the bestseller and Christy Award-winning Passing by Samaria. Part Cherokee herself, she spent the first year of her life on a Navajo reservation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bethany House
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0764228870
• ISBN 13: 9780764228872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336