Heaven Hill Plantation, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Degambia balances on a tightrope stretched between her parents' ambitions.
Her father, a prosperous African American plantation owner, wants to preserve the heritage of his African ancestors.
But her mother, who can pass for white, seeks to distance herself from her African roots and position herself in the elite society of wealthy free-women-of-color.
Alexandra longs to establish her own p.
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Indy Pub Once in a blood moon, paperback/dorothea l. hubble bonneau
