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    <body><![CDATA[Breena Clarke's Stand the Storm centers on the story of &quot;Sewing Annie&quot; Coats and her son, Gabriel, expert tailors who manage to purchase their freedom at the cost of entering a less than lucrative business arrangement with their former owner. Nonetheless, hard work and thriftiness allow th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74187047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Like her first work of historical fiction, <em>Stand the Storm</em> weaves together the tale of an African American family struggling to cope in a white world. Although this novel takes place a few generations before <em>River, Cross My Heart</em>, it packs an equally powerful punch. Despite its horrors and violence,...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463613">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a descendant of enslaved Africans who would have lived lives very much like the Coates did (Southern Maryland tobacco farms as well as skilled and semi-skilled urban slaves) I really wanted to love this book.  Unfortunately ,the whole thing read like a collection of story ideas none of which were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41058035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Breena Clarke adds a great deal of depth to the characters in “Stand the Storm”. The way that she writes seems realistic and believable, as if the characters could have been real people at one time. Her use of words was challenging in that I sometimes found myself looking up unfamiliar words. Ni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77627600">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cared for the characters and was compelled to finish it, even though I don't think she developed her characters as much as she could, but that may of been by design.  Since I am a native Washingtonian, I enjoyed her narratives of the setting of Georgetown up to and during the Civil War.  Read it c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58846223">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 30 14:01:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time with this book. I heard about it on NPR and thought it sounded fascinating so was very excited to read it. But there is no real plot and it kind of meanders between characters so it's hard to get &quot;into&quot; any particular one. I really struggled to get through it and was defi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38959737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Georgetown in the years preceding the Civil War and immediately after.<br/>Gabrial Coates is spared the fields because of his talents as a tailor. This is the story of his mother Sewing Annie and the life she and Gabriel are able to make for themselves. Brave people at a very terrible time in our h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47520072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting book about a black family living &quot;free&quot; in Georgetown during the civil war.  I enjoyed the story written from a different perspective than most.  A family's struggle to purchase their freedom &amp; then to remain free; it had some heart-wrenching moments.  My only complaint was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49707788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story about freed blacks in Georgetown in the time leading up to, during, and just after the Civil War. Very interesting, although, again, I wasn't thrilled with the ending. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to give this book 3 stars, because I enjoyed it until the very end. The last 10 pages or so had me scratching my head and going &quot;What the hell????&quot;<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A possible Arlington Reads pic for 2009, about a family in Georgetown, who go from slavery to freedom.  I like this one a lot - the writing is lovely - and I'm glad to be reading it just for myself, even if it is emotionally difficult.  <br/><br/>Reasons to chose this book for AR: It's local (take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37464651">more...</a>]]></body>
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