Cover image for The thread collectors : a novel / Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman.
Title:
The thread collectors : a novel / Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman.
ISBN:
9781525804823

9781525899782
Personal Author:
Edwards, Shaunna J.
Publication Information:
Toronto, Ontario : Graydon House, [2022]

©2022
Physical Description:
385 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Includes reader's guide.
Summary:
In 1863, a young Black woman who embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army crosses paths with a Jewish seamstress who helps her discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save.
Geographic Term:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Fiction.

New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Subject Term:
Underground Railroad -- Fiction

Embroidery -- Fiction.

Enslaved persons--United States -- Fiction.

African American women -- Fiction

Black women--United States -- Fiction

Jewish women -- Fiction
Genre:
Historical fiction
Added Author:
Richman, Alyson
OCLC Number:
on1338171073
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1

Burnsville - Burnhaven~1

Eagan - Wescott~1
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