num_pages: 320
description: Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwined histories of Indigenous and enslaved Black communitiesthe fascinating debut novel inspired by a true story of the National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of All That She Carried  now featuring a new introduction. The Cherokee Rose is a mic dropan instant classic. An invitation to listen to the urgent sweet choruses of past and present.Honore Fanonne Jeffers author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTConducting research for her weekly history column Jinx a free-spirited Muscogee (Creek) historian travels to Hold House a Georgia plantation originally owned by Cherokee chief James Hold to uncover the mystery of what happened to a tribal member who stayed behind after Indian removal when Native Americans were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands in the nineteenth century.At Hold House she meets Ruth a magazine writer visiting on assignment and Cheyenne a Southern Black debutante seeking to purchase the estate. Hovering above them all is the spirit of Mary Ann Battis the young Indigenous woman who remained in Georgia more than a century earlier. When they discover a diary left on the property that reveals even more about the houses dark history the three womens connections to the place grow deeper. Over a long holiday weekend Cheyenne is forced to reconsider the propertys rightful ownership Jinx reexamines assumptions about her tribes racial history and Ruth confronts her own familys past traumas before surprising herself by falling into a new romance.Imbued with a nuanced understanding of history The Cherokee Rose brings the past to life as Jinx Ruth and Cheyenne unravel mysteries with powerful consequences for them all.
language: English
title: The Cherokee Rose
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks