01950cam a2200373 i 4500 1934353356 TxGeo 20250214120000.0 240116s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023056631 9780593725115 hbk. 0593725115 hbk. (OCoLC)1417600528 TxGeo rda Eckstine, Erin Crosby, author. Junie : a novel / Erin Crosby Eckstine. First edition. New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2025] 361 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Junie has always yearned for more. Born and raised on the Bellereine plantation in the Alabama countryside, the sixteen-year-old spends her days working for the McQueens and serving as a maid for their daughter Violet, her oldest and closest friend. In the daytime, she entertains herself with poetry and imagines grand romances and faraway worlds. Under the cover of night, she steals away to the woods, curling up by the riverbank. But consumed by grief over the recent death of her older sister Minnie, she has vowed never to leave her family's side. Her world is capsized at the arrival of the Taylors, a wealthy brother and sister from New Orleans. The McQueens are keen to marry Violet off to Mr. Taylor, and if they succeed, Junie would be ripped away from everyone she knows and loves"-- Provided by publisher. 20250221. Enslaved women Fiction. Plantations Fiction. Sisters Death Fiction. Grief Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Alabama Social life and customs 19th century Fiction. Ghost stories. Historical fiction. QS5