Title: Song of the shank
Description: "In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Fiction, Blind musicians, Mothers and sons, Pianists, Family life, African American musicians, Slavery, Exploitation, Musicians, Amerikanisches Englisch, African Americans, Childhood and youth, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, Mothers and sons, fiction, Musicians, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, african american, historical
Places: United States
People: A. Andrae, Blind Tom (1849-1908)