Title: The watery part of the world
Description: Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later.
Subjects: Freedmen, Fiction, Interracial marriage, Young women, African Americans, History, Fiction, historical, general, Young women, fiction, African americans, fiction, Marriage, fiction, North carolina, fiction, Freed persons
Places: Outer Banks (N.C.), North Carolina
Time periods: 1775-1865