Ebook {Epub PDF} Grace by Natashia Deón

Grace. By Natashia Deon. List Price: $ Ap | Paperback | 6 x 9, pages | ISBN Order Now From Find a local bookstore. Named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, For a runaway slave in the s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Author of the critically acclaimed novel, GRACE, which was named a Best Debut Fiction by The American Library Associations, Black Caucus and was named Best Book by the New York Times, Deón is a Los Angeles native, wife, mother of two, and her new novel, The Perishing, is due out November “Grace is getting a good thing, even when you don’t deserve it” says Naomi, the young narrator in the novel Grace by Natashia Deon. Naomi, a black slave, tells the story of the South in the time period surrounding the Civil War through her own memories of her life as well as her observation of her daughter, Josey’s life.

by Natashia Deón. "For a runaway slave in the s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That's what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she must leave behind her beloved Momma. Recorded JNatashia Deón's debut novel Grace depicts the violent, terrifying world of the antebellum South, where the emancipation of slaves can b. Natashia Deón is an American novelist, attorney, and activist. She was an NAACP Image Awards Nominee for her debut novel, Grace which also won the American Library Association's Black Caucus Award for Best Debut Fiction and was named one of The New York Times Critics' Top Books of by critic Jennifer Senior. Her second novel, The Perishing, is slated to be released November 2,

Grace is a sweeping, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom, love, and motherhood, told in a dazzling and original voice set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop. “Grace is getting a good thing, even when you don’t deserve it” says Naomi, the young narrator in the novel Grace by Natashia Deon. Naomi, a black slave, tells the story of the South in the time period surrounding the Civil War through her own memories of her life as well as her observation of her daughter, Josey’s life. Genre. Fiction, Historical Fiction. edit data. Natashia Deón is a NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Grace (Counterpoint Press), which was awarded the First Novel Prize by the American Library Association's Black Caucus (BCALA), was named Kirkus Review Best Book of , a New York Times Top Book , a Book Riot Favorite Book of , The Root Best Book of , and an Entropy Magazine Best Book of