![]() ![]() ![]() Just as she had in the first two books of the trilogy, Anderson highlights the injustice faced by blacks, especially those who were fighting at the helm of the supposed war for liberty. And with some persuasion, they go to Yorktown with a donkey, a boy called Aberdeen, and hope for a better life. ![]() They find Ruth, who has been staying with a couple in a cottage near the woods. In this newest installment, Isabel and Curzon are together again, searching for Isabel’s younger sister Ruth, who had been taken from her five years ago (or more accurately, two books ago). Eight years after the publication of Laurie Halse Anderson’s critically acclaimed Chains, Anderson is back with the final book of her Seeds of America trilogy, finally ending the adventure of the two African American characters we’d come to know and love: Isabel and Curzon. ![]()
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