Frost, Helen, 1949-

The braid / Helen Frost. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. - 95 p. ; 24 cm.

"Frances Foster books."

Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.

ISBN: 0374309620 9780374309626

LCCN: 2005040148

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Family--Fiction.
Islands--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Canada--History--1841-1867--Fiction.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Mingulay (Scotland)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Scotland--History--19th century--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]