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When Cornelius Allen offers his little princess Clarissa's hand in marriage, he presents her with a wedding gift: the young slave she was raised with, Sarah. Sarah is also Allen's little princess and Clarissa's sister, something of his longtime romance along with his house slave, Emmeline. When Clarissa's hubby suspects that their newborn child is illegitimate, Clarissa and Sarah are repaid to her parents, Cornelius and Theodora, in pity, setting in movement some occasions that will damage this once-powerful family. Advised through alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius' better half, The Wedding Gift is a sensational novel that shows where the complicated and powerful bonds and relationships between women explored in novels like The Help and The Top secret Life of Bees started. Marlen Suyapa Bodden's book is an close portrait that shows where this specific American story and dynamic all started and can leave listeners breathless. Includes a reading group guide read by the writer.
