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So far back : a novel
Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard--the last descendent of one of Charleston's oldest and most prominent families -- is caring for her ailing mother. An upright, unmarried spinster, Louisa has spent her life looking after others. In the aftermath of a hurricane that turns her life upside down, she finds a battered diary kept by one of her ancestors. The journal recounts the story of Diana, a 19th-century slave who worked for the Hilliards, but sought to improve her life and her means, and was severely punished. Diana's fate is gradually revealed, even as Louisa discovers objects in her house missing, moved, dented, and seemingly handled by an unappeasable presence. In some small way trying to set right age-old wrongs, Louisa discovers how her own life is entangled in her family's haunted history. So Far Back is a nuanced and resonant portrait of two families sharing an enduring past and an uneasy present.
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- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1119452
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/314904880#Topic/single_women_fiction
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/314904880#Topic/mothers_and_daughters_fiction
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/314904880#Topic/fiction
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/896624
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117517
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107237
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113549
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/314904880#Topic/women_slaves_fiction
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111421
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/314904880#Place/charleston_s_c
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204603
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004353
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/892657
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/314904880#Topic/diaries_fiction
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178532
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1026997
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/314904880#Topic/fiction_literary
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- "Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard--the last descendent of one of Charleston's oldest and most prominent families -- is caring for her ailing mother. An upright, unmarried spinster, Louisa has spent her life looking after others. In the aftermath of a hurricane that turns her life upside down, she finds a battered diary kept by one of her ancestors. The journal recounts the story of Diana, a 19th-century slave who worked for the Hilliards, but sought to improve her life and her means, and was severely punished. Diana's fate is gradually revealed, even as Louisa discovers objects in her house missing, moved, dented, and seemingly handled by an unappeasable presence. In some small way trying to set right age-old wrongs, Louisa discovers how her own life is entangled in her family's haunted history. So Far Back is a nuanced and resonant portrait of two families sharing an enduring past and an uneasy present."@en
- "Louisa Hilliard, the last descendant of one of Charleston's oldest families, finds her quiet life turned upside down when she comes upon the diary of one of her ancestors, which recounts the story of Diana, a 19th Century slave who worked for the Hilliards. As Louisa learns of Diana's tragic fate, she begins to sense a presence roaming in her house. Attempting to appease this presence and set right age-old wrongs, she discovers how her own life is entangled in her family's haunted history."@en
- "Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard, the last member of a prominent Charleston family, discovers a diary from the 1830s that recounts the story of an unfairly punished slave named Diana. Louisa senses a presence in her house and sets out to undo past wrongs."