The Freedom Maze [paperback] Delia Sherman (author) [Apr 02, 2015]
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Delia Sherman was born in Japan and raised in New York City but spent vacations with relatives in Texas, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Her work has appeared most recently in the young adult anthologies "The Beastly Bride" "Tales of the Animal People";" Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories"; and "Teeth: Vampire Tales." Her novels for younger readers include "Changeling" and "The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen." She lives in New York City.
"Multilayered, compassionate and thought-provoking, a timely read on the sesquicentennial of America's Civil War."
--"Kirkus Reviews" (*starred review*)
"Sherman has created a finely honed work of art, a novel that deals eloquently with complex and intersecting issues of race, womanhood, class and age. In transporting the reader so fully into another time, "The Freedom Maze" becomes timeless."
--Alaya Dawn Johnson, author of "Moonshine"
"A seamless blending of wondrous American myth with harsh American reality, as befits young Sophie's coming-of-age. I think younger readers and adults alike will be completely riveted by her magical journey into her own family's double-edged past."
--N. K. Jemisin, author of "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms"
"Beautifully imagined and told with satisfyingly matter-of-fact detail: pot liquor and spoon bread, whips and Spanish Moss, corset covers and veves and bitter, healing herbs. "The Freedom Maze" is deep, meaningful fun."
"Kirkus Reviews" Best Books of 2011
"Multilayered, compassionate and thought-provoking, a timely read on the sesquicentennial of America's Civil War."
--"Kirkus Reviews" (*starred review*)
"Sherman has created a finely honed work of art, a novel that deals eloquently with complex and intersecting issues of race, womanhood, class and age. In transporting the reader so fully into another time, "The Freedom Maze" becomes timeless."
--Alaya Dawn Johnson, author of "Moonshine"
"A seamless blending of wondrous American myth with harsh American reality, as befits young Sophie's coming-of-age. I think younger readers and adults alike will be completely riveted by her magical journey into her own family's double-edged past."
--N. K. Jemisin, author of "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms"
"Beautifully imagined and told with satisfyingly matter-of-fact detail: pot liquor and spoon bread, whips and Spanish Moss, corset covers and veves and bitter, healing herbs. "The Freedom Maze" is deep, meaningful fun."
--Nisi Shawl, author of "Filter House"
"Exposes a wide sweep through a narrow aperture, where the arbitrary nature of race and ownership, kindred and love, are illuminated in the harsh seeking glare of an adolescent's coming of age."
--Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
"This book puts the lie to those today making loose political statements about happy, comfortable slave families of that brutal era while telling a strong story that will not let the young reader stop turning pages to see how things will work out for Sophie and her fellow slaves, especially the cook Africa, and house slaves Antigua and Canada. I was mesmerized."
--Jane Yolen, author of "The Devil's Arithmetic"
"A riveting, fearless, and masterful novel. I loved Sophie completely."
--Nancy Werlin, author of "Extraordinary"
"A subtle and haunting book that examines what it means to be who we are."
--Holly Black, co-author of The Spiderwick Chronic
Sherman has created a finely honed work of art, a novel that deals eloquently with complex and intersecting issues of race, womanhood, class and age. In transporting the reader so fully into another time, The Freedom Maze becomes timeless. This is true magic.
--Alaya Dawn Johnson, author of The Summer Prince
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 1960 in America and thirteen-year-old Sophie is frustrated. Her mother has sent her to spend summer with Grandmama on their family s old estate in the sweltering bayous of southern Louisiana. Once a grand plantation, a hive of activity, it is now ramshackle, run down and all-but abandoned. Bored, lonely and far too hot, Sophie starts exploring. When she discovers an overgrown maze, she makes her way inside, and lost among its pathways she finds a magical creature who promises her the adventure of a lifetime . . . Sophie is transported a hundred years into the past to the Oak River plantation in its heyday. Her own ancestors mistake her for a slave girl and set her to work alongside the hundreds of other slaves who tend to the fields, the house, and the white family s every whim. As the reality of slave life becomes horribly clear, Sophie starts to wonder how long she ll survive; and how or if she will ever get back home. Both exciting and truly heart-breaking, The Freedom Maze is a very special novel about slavery, survival and the many paths to freedom. WINNER OF THE ANDRE NORTON AWARD. When Sophie enters her grandmother's maze one sweltering Louisiana summer in 1960, she does not expect to emerge 100 years in the past, on to her ancestors' sugar plantation, mistaken for a slave. Sophie is about to learn a historical lesson she'll never forget. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781472117526
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