Roadwalkers, a novel, by Shirley Ann Grau
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Roadwalkers, a novel, by Shirley Ann Grau
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eng
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fiction
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Roadwalkers
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29030317
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by Shirley Ann Grau
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a novel
Summary
Mary is an orphaned, homeless, African American child, abandoned by the rest of her family and left to care for her younger brother. She becomes a “roadwalker,” a nomad who wanders across the rural south and quickly learns to rely on herself to survive. When she grows up to become a successful artist and a designer, she has a daughter of her own, Nanda, and she?s determined to hold her child close. But when Nanda is accepted into an elite school on the East Coast, integrating the all-white Catholic girls? academy, Mary finds she can?t keep some of the world?s cruel realities at bay forever. Told from the perspective of both mother and daughter, Roadwalkers is the story of a special bond forged by savage history, and a tale of extraordinary loyalty and sacrifice
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