March, 23 Agosto, 19:00 – 20:00
The Popular Book Club will meet at the Morris Public Library on Tuesday, August 23, 7 PM and discuss “Sunflower Sisters” by Martha Hall Kelly.
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Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists.
Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City, to the horrors of the battlefield. It’s a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty, a story still so relevant today.
New registrations and book copy requests: 860-567-7440 or https://morrispubliclibrary.net/library-calendar-event…/
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