Initially intending to attend one semester abroad, she studied for a semester and never returned. Raised in Washington D.C., Tracy Chevalier moved to England in 1984 after graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio. Education-B.A., Oberlin College (USA) M.A., University of.Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.Ī powerful journey brimming with color and drama, The Last Runaway is Tracy Chevalier’s vivid engagement with an iconic part of American history. However, drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, Honor befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. In New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier’s newest historical saga, she introduces Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker who moves to Ohio in 1850, only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land.
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