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"Crossing the River" is an expansive, historically grounded novel that traces the lives of African descent across continents and centuries. Beginning with a father who sells his three children into slavery during a failed farming season, the narrative follows a freed slave’s missionary journey to Liberia in the 1830s, a pioneering woman who seeks refuge from white‑justice on the Colorado frontier, and an African‑American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Through a range of voices and inventive storytelling, Phillips weaves these threads into a unified, many‑tongued chorus that illuminates the enduring impact of slavery, migration, and identity on black families.
First publish date: 1993
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Caryl Phillips
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