Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom

By Peg Kingman

Book Overview

Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason, as her old friend Grace MacDonald Pollocke discovers, is far more personal. Grace, now a Philadelphia portrait painter, undertakes a perilous investigation that leads to the discovery of old sins and crimes, and the commission of new ones. What laws may be broken--what sins and crimes committed--in the service of a higher justice? Deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury . . . even murder? This novel thrillingly evokes a nineteenth-century America not so different from the present: a time of stunning new technologies and financial collapse, when religious and racial views collided with avowed principles of morality and law.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393065472
• ISBN13: 9780393065473
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"