The Wedding Gift

by Marlen Suyapa Bodden

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When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. It just so happens that Sarah is Allen's daughter as well, the product of a long-term sexual relationship with his slave Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends Clarissa and Sarah back to the Allens, their return sets in motion a series of events that will destroy the once-powerful family.
  • ISBN10 1250029023
  • ISBN13 9781250029027
  • Publish Date 31 March 2015 (first published 7 December 2009)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 23 May 2022
  • Imprint St. Martin's Griffin
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 336
  • Language English