The FOPL May book group choice is The Sea Captain's Wife: A true story of Love, Race & War in the Nineteenth Century by Martha Hodes. This non-fiction book was a Lincoln Prize Finalist and named one of the best books of 2006 by Library Journal.
From 500 family letters, award-winning historian Martha Hodes recreates the extraordinary life of an ordinary nineteenth-century woman. Eunice Connolly, born white and poor in New England, watched her brothers and husband fight on opposite sides of the Civil War, then fell in love with a well-to-do black sea captain from the West Indies. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history: opportunity and racism, slavery and war, equality and freedom.
Please join us on May 6th at 7 PM at the Pembroke Public Library to discuss this true story.
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