G974 Book Review of That woman by Wayne Clark
Name of Book: That Woman Author: Wayne Clark ISBN: 9780992120269 Publisher: Createspace Type of book: 1748-1755, New York, kidnapping, France, surviving, resourcefulness, revenge, payback, trading, indentured servitude, land schemes, business, merchants Year it was published: 2017 Summary: Beating the Odds in Colonial New York • 2017 Book Excellence Awards Finalist for Fiction • 2017 Winner 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading Kidnapped in France and brought to America as an indentured servant, a young woman takes on the brutal merchant king of New York’s East River waterfront… Illness suddenly deprives 17-year-old Sarah Da Silva and her older brother Jacob of a mother. Before Sarah has come to terms with that loss, her merchant father grows frail and increasingly desperate in the face of impending bankruptcy. On the rainy night their father scours the docks of Bordeaux, France, to make his final bid to save his family, his children are kidnapped and forced ...