Tangleroot

Synopsis

The INDIES INTRODUCE and INDIE NEXT debut YA novel about blood and family that is both history and mystery.Noni Reid has grown up in the shadow of her mother, Dr. Radiance Castine, renowned scholar of Black literature, who is alarmingly perfect at just about everything. When Dr. Castine takes a job as the president of the prestigious Stonepost College in rural Virginia, Noni is forced to leave her New England home and, most importantly, a prime internship and her friends. She and her mother move into the “big house” on Tangleroot Plantation. Tangleroot was built by one of Noni’s ancestors, an enslaved man named Cuffee Fortune—who Dr. Castine believes was also the original founder of Stonepost College, and that the school was originally formed for Black students. Dr. Castine spends much of her time trying to piece together enough undeniable truth in order to change the name of the school in Cuffee’s honor—and to force the university to reckon with its own racist past. Meanwhile, Noni hates everything about her new home, but finds herself morbidly fascinated by the white, slaveholding family who once lived in it. Slowly, she begins to unpeel the layers of sinister history that envelop her Virginia town, her mother’s workplace, her ancestry—and her life story as she knew it. Through it all, she must navigate the ancient prejudices of the citizens in her small town, and ultimately, she finds herself both affirming her mother’s position and her own—but also discovering a secret that changes everything.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781250880673

Related ISBNs:

9781250880666

Publisher:

Feiwel & Friends

Date of Addition:

11/01/24

Copyrighted By:

Kalela Williams.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Teens, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Education

Reading Age:

14–18

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.