AINDREAS THE MESSENGER - Tecno-Libro

Louisville, 1855, jumps into reality in Gerald McDaniel s Aindreas: the Messenger, whose protagonist is an endearing irish-Catholic boy. With the help of an angelic Mr. Knight and KA¼nig, a heroic dog, Aindreas tends to his dying mother and befriends a slave family. Enhanced by period illustrations, this novel sings with compelling energy and authentic tenderness. Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab s Wife and The Disobedience of Water McDaniel sets an ambitious pace in the arena of historical fiction with this first volume of a projected four-book series following the colorful and curious life of Aindreas Rivers a heroic underdog with a generous, passionate, innocent heart. Described with homespun simplicity, Aindreas life is filled with wonder, uncertainty, responsibility and fear. Louisville is on the verge of racial, religious and ethnic anarchy as election day approaches and the Know-Nothing Party arms mobs of drunken thugs to intimidate voters. Aind