nancykecso 's review for:

The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

3.0

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I was misled by the title of this book, I thought that it dealt with the end of slavery in the United States. Instead, it is the story of Hope, a Quaker who decides to come to America after her fiance falls in love with someone else and breaks off their engagement. Her sister was going to America to marry and Hope decides that she wants something different. Once in America, she ends up in Ohio in the midst of runaway slaves. America does not end up solving Hope's problems and she is left feeling even more out of place than she had in England. I enjoyed reading about how conflicted the Quakers are when faced with having to make a choice between doing what they felt was right and following the law.