G1023 Book Review of The underground river by MARTHA CONWAY
Name of Book: The Undeground River Author: Martha Conway ISBN: 978-1-5011-6020-2 Publisher: Touchstone Type of book: 1838, sinking boat, Underground Railroad, Ohio River, map lines, North and south, freedom, babies, acting, sewing, adventure. Year it was published: 2017 Summary: The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It’s 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue—until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist, Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena’s Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between th...