Astray -- Emma Donoghue

The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. <p/> With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of <i>Room</i> takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. <i>Astray</i> offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Emma Donoghue<br><b>Publisher:</b> Back Bay Books<br><b>Published:</b> 10/22/2013<br><b>Pages:</b> 304<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.75lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780316206280<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times Book Review</i> 12/01/2013 pg. 32<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Born in Dublin in 1969, <b>Emma Donoghue</b> is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories. <p/> She is best known for her novels, which ran