num_pages: 368
description: In the summer of 1864, sixteen-year-old Rhoda Strong lives in the Lumbee Indian settlement of Robeson County, North Carolina, which has become a pawn in the bloody struggle between the Union and Confederate armies. The community is besieged by the marauding Union Army as well as the desperate Home Guard who are hell-bent on conscripting the young men into deadly forced labor. Daughter of a Scotsman and his formidable Lumbee wife, Rhoda is fiercely loyal to her family and desperately fears for their safety, but her love for the outlaw hero Henry Berry Lowrie forces her to cast her lot with danger. Her struggle becomes part of the community's in a powerful story of love and survival. Nowhere Else on Earth is a moving saga that magnificently captures a little-known piece of American history.
language: English
title: Nowhere Else on Earth
titlecomplete: Nowhere Else on Earth
characters: Rhoda Strong
genres: Family, Fiction, Historical, War, Native Americans, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Civil War, Novels
ratings_count: 502
places: North Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Penguin Books