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    The Wedding Gift: A Novel
    The Wedding Gift: A Novel
    The Wedding Gift: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Wedding Gift: A Novel

    Written by Marlen Suyapa Bodden

    Narrated by Jenna Lamia and January LaVoy

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    About this audiobook

    When Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, he presents her with a wedding gift: the young slave she grew up with, Sarah. Sarah is also Allen's daughter and Clarissa's sister, a product of his longtime relationship with his house slave, Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband suspects that their newborn son is illegitimate, Clarissa and Sarah are sent back to her parents, Cornelius and Theodora, in shame, setting in motion a series of events that will destroy this once powerful family.

    Told through alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius' wife, The Wedding Gift is a stunning novel that shows where the complicated and compelling bonds and relationships between women explored in novels like The Help and The Secret Life of Bees began. Marlen Suyapa Bodden's novel is an intimate portrait of slavery and the 19th century South that shows where this particular American story and dynamic all started and will leave listeners breathless.

    Includes a reading group guide read by the author

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781427232984
    The Wedding Gift: A Novel
    Author

    Marlen Suyapa Bodden

    MARLEN SUYAPA BODDEN is a lawyer at The Legal Aid Society in New York City, the nation’s oldest and largest law firm for the poor. She drew on her knowledge of modern and historical slavery, human trafficking, and human rights abuses to write The Wedding Gift, her first novel. Marlen is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Tufts University. In 2012, the University of Rhode Island awarded Marlen an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

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    • 5/5
      This was an amazing book! The level of detail and the different perspectives kept my attention throughout the book to the very end. Very emotional. Excellent writing.
    • 5/5
      This book was a phenomenal read!
      Enjoyed every moment. The ending was definitely a killer ending!