The freedom maze by delia sherman6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Sophie is left to her own devices after her mother leaves, and wanders the property, reading and exploring. ![]() It's the summer of 1960, and Sophie's mother is planning on sending Sophie to Catholic private school in the fall to avoid having to send her girl to a desegregated public school. Sophie's mother is angry, thanks to a fairly recent divorce, while Sophie seems to have more ambivalent feelings about her father's leaving. Sophie's feeling resentful and frustrated about having to spend the summer in the country her mother is leaving her there with her aunt so her mother can get a job as a CPA. This was my first book by Delia Sherman, and it was a very pleasant surprise to find out that this audio version was narrated by Robin Miles, whose lovely voice I'd recently heard narrating two other books: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race and Another Brooklyn.)Ībout The Freedom Maze: Sophie is thirteen years old and on her way to the family's country property (former plantation) outside New Orleans. ![]()
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