The braid
By: Helen Frost.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Sisters -- Fiction; Family -- Fiction; Islands -- Fiction; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction; Mingulay (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Scotland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
Notes: "Frances Foster books."