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An Acquaintance with Darkness
by Ann Rinaldi
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Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush is orphaned in Washington just as Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. Her friendship with Anna Surratt and her connection to the Surratt household place her close to the conspiracy investigation, while disturbing evidence suggests that her respected physician uncle may be obtaining bodies illegally for anatomical study.
Emily is forced to judge adults whose public causes appear honourable but whose private methods involve secrecy and violation. The novel joins political thriller, murder investigation and Gothic unease to ask whether loyalty to family, science or country can excuse the exploitation of people who have little power to object.
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