
A Girl Called Samson: A Novel

One. Two. Three. Four. All in one fell swoop. We no longer believed there wouldn’t be five. Or six, or all. Loss is not spread equally. I have learned that lesson well. It is a lumpy porridge and a thin gruel, and fate does not consider the suffering of a mother and say, Perhaps I’ll spare her this time. There were many times in our season of death
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The day I turned eighteen, December 17, 1777, was like the day before it and the day after. I had waited for it since I’d been bound to the Thomases almost eight years prior, thinking that I would have plotted a course, a path that led to a life of my choosing, where no one could keep me and no one could control my steps. But freedom is not left or
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Great miracles were wrought on their journey, but miracles do not make life easy. Most often, miracles just make the next step possible.