Island Queen: A Novel Binding:Paperback Vicken has a plan: throw

Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good

When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world

anthropologist and champion of the black heritage

these two share an unusual past

" --School Library Journal (starred review)

Island Queen: A Novel Binding:Paperback Vicken has a plan: throw"Riveting and transformative evocative and immersive by turns vibrant and bold and wise discovering Dorothy's story is a singular pleasure." New York Times (Editors' Choice) A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean