{"id":40549,"date":"2015-03-22T18:31:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40549"},"modified":"2017-03-23T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:32:57","slug":"the-cherokee-rose-a-novel-of-gardens-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40549","title":{"rendered":"The Cherokee Rose: A Novel Of Gardens & Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cherokee Rose: A Novel Of Gardens & Ghosts<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

John F. Blair<\/a>
\n2015-04-07
\n264 pages
\n6×9
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-89587-635-5<\/p>\n

Tiya Miles<\/strong><\/a>, Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor of African American Women\u2019s History
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Written by an award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArthur \u201cGenius Grant,\u201d The Cherokee Rose<\/em> explores territory reminiscent of the bestselling and beloved works of Alice Walker<\/a>, Octavia Butler<\/a>, and Louise Erdrich<\/a>. Now, Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible novel examines a little-known aspect of America\u2019s past\u2014slaveholding by Southern Creeks<\/a> and Cherokees<\/a>\u2014and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia<\/a> plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out.<\/p>\n

Based on the author’s in-depth and award-winning research into archival sources at the Chief Vann House Historic Site<\/a> in Chatsworth, Georgia<\/a>, and the Moravian mission<\/a> sponsored there in the early 1800s, Miles has blended this fascinating history with a contemporary cast of engaging and memorable characters, including Jinx, the free-spirited historian exploring her tribe\u2019s complicated racial history; Ruth, whose mother sought refuge from a troubled marriage in her beloved garden and the cosmetic empire she built from its bounty; Cheyenne, the Southern black debutante seeking to connect with a meaningful personal history; and, hovering above them all, the spirit of long-gone Mary Ann Battis, a young woman suspected of burning a mission to the ground and then disappearing from tribal records. Together, the women\u2019s discoveries about the secrets of the Cherokee plantation trace their attempts to connect with the strong spirits of the past and reconcile the conflicts in their own lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible novel examines a little-known aspect of America\u2019s past\u2014slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees\u2014and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,3015,15,6940,20,25],"tags":[3192,19703,2969],"class_list":["post-40549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-novels","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-georgia","tag-john-f-blair","tag-tiya-miles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52794,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40549\/revisions\/52794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}