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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
This story takes place in 2 time periods 100 years apart. In 1987, Benny is a brand new teacher who has accepted a position in a rural community in Louisiana where the students are unmotivated, unengaged and struggling with multi-generational poverty and trauma. She has extremely limited resources. But finds a way to get her students interested in the history of their families and their town.
In 1887 Hannie is a young Black woman, recently freed from slavery. During the war, her, her mother, aunt and siblings were separated and sold across the country. Before they left, each person took 3 beads from her grandmothers necklace and wore them around their necks so they could know each other when they met up again. Hannie gets caught up when the 2 daughters (1/2 sisters) of her former owner get into an argument over their respective inheritances. The three young women (one white, one mixed race, one black) travel from Louisiana to Texas dressed as boys to try and resolve the girls’ dispute and for Hannie to confirm her sharecrop status. They get into lots of trouble along the way. While on their journey, they collect names of missing family members of those they encounter in hopes of reuniting them.
I enjoyed the story, even if it was far fetched at times.
In 1887 Hannie is a young Black woman, recently freed from slavery. During the war, her, her mother, aunt and siblings were separated and sold across the country. Before they left, each person took 3 beads from her grandmothers necklace and wore them around their necks so they could know each other when they met up again. Hannie gets caught up when the 2 daughters (1/2 sisters) of her former owner get into an argument over their respective inheritances. The three young women (one white, one mixed race, one black) travel from Louisiana to Texas dressed as boys to try and resolve the girls’ dispute and for Hannie to confirm her sharecrop status. They get into lots of trouble along the way. While on their journey, they collect names of missing family members of those they encounter in hopes of reuniting them.
I enjoyed the story, even if it was far fetched at times.