The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress.

With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 10/30/2012
ISBN: 9780316206297
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Library Journal 05/15/2012 pg. 54
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People Weekly 11/05/2012 pg. 52
Entertainment Weekly 11/02/2012 pg. 75
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2012 pg. 15
New York Review of Books 11/22/2012 pg. 46
Shelf Awareness 11/06/2012
New York Times Book Review 11/11/2012 pg. 48
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2013 pg. 8
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