Title: Stillwater /
Authors: Helget, Nicole Lea, 1976-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Andrae, A.; Twins Fiction; Brothers and sisters Fiction; Children of mentally ill mothers Fiction.; Life change events Fiction; Underground Railroad Minnesota Fiction.; Roman; Amerikanisches Englisch; Minnesota Fiction
Abstract: "Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage; Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him. Stillwater, near the Mississippi River and Canada, becomes an important stop on the Underground Railroad. As Clement and Angel grow up and the country marches to war, their lives are changed by many battles for freedom and by losses in the struggle for independence, large and small"--