Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Philip E. Orbanes A groundbreaking study of the

A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman

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The conditions are horrific and Lina must fight for her life and for the lives of those around her

as news of the disaster spreads across the United States

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Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Philip E. Orbanes A groundbreaking study of theLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time." Matthew Reisz, The Guardian This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamed, but to Texas.