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THE ONLY HISTORICAL NOVEL IN PRINT BASED ON FREDERICK DOUGLASS

For immediate release 08 Aug 2023

Contact: Rhonda Hughes

503-327-8849 rhughes@hawthornebooks.com |

Based on the life of Frederick Douglass, the most prominent African American of the 19th Century, Sidney Morrison has created a mesmerizing and important historical novel richly detailing the Civil War Era and the Institution of Slavery that Douglass was instrumental in ending.

Frederick Douglass escapes enslavement in Maryland and becomes a prominent abolitionist leader; one of the nation’s most skilled orators; and publisher of an antislavery newspaper called The North Star. He lives with...Forward

Lidia Yuknavitch writes about The Inevitable: “The first time I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun I bawled my face off. Daniel Hope serves up a similar creature, a humanoid robot named Tuck, and quite quickly in the story, Tuck began to remind me more of what matters about the human condition than I learn from most of the humans I know. Love stories are not what we’ve been told. A humanoid robot named Tuck reminds us how to build connections and be ever-giving in the face of death and...Forward

Out on September 2, 2023
Tuck is a humanoid robot who survived the Bot Riots on Earth by escaping into space, but his metal bones, ragged strips of synthaskin, and frayed Carbora polymer muscles need replacement. As the last bot in the universe and grieving the loss of his family, Tuck grapples with the meaning of life and death as he is forced to wander between planets looking for parts, risking exposure even as collectors are hunting him. Tuck alleviates his loneliness when he adopts an...Forward

Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met and fell in love while scuba diving in Vietnam. Ville then left his native Finland to join Kristen in Oregon and together they embarked on a life-changing two-year cycling adventure covering 18,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina. Despite never having cycled further than around the block, they persevered unrelenting, punishing rain and wind, altitude sickness, dog attacks, bike accidents, and countless flat tires to cycle between the...Forward

“I’m adapting a memoir. It’s called The Chronology of Water. Lidia Yuknavitch is from Portland. I love her novels but her memoires… it’s deeply personal to her. She’s in my blood and I knew that before I met her. As soon as I met her it was like we started this race without any sense of competition. I’m making the movie this summer but other than that, my only goal is just to finish the screenplay and hire a really spectacular actor: I’m going to write the best fucking female...Forward