September 19, 2013 / Leslie

Spotlight & Giveaway: The Wedding Gift

I enjoy historical fiction and am eagerly anticipating reading the soon to be published The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden. Thanks to the publicist, I also have a copy to give away to one of my readers with a US mailing address.

Following is a little information about the book and the author.

The Wedding Gift
by Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publish Date: September 24, 2013
Format: Hardcover | 320 pages

About the Book

When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa’s hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah — her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper southern belle she appears to be with ambitions of loving who she chooses and Sarah equally hides behind the façade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with them to their new home, igniting events that spiral into a tale beyond what you ever imagined possible and it will leave you enraptured until the very end.

Told through alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius’ wife, Marlen Suyapa Bodden’s The Wedding Gift is an intimate portrait that will leave readers breathless.

About the Author

Dr. Marlen Suyapa Bodden is a lawyer at The Legal Aid Society in New York City, the nation’s oldest and largest legal services organization. She has more than two decades’ experience representing poor people and low-wage and immigrant workers, many of whom are severely underpaid, if paid at all.

She drew on her knowledge of modern and historical slavery, human trafficking, and human rights abuses to write The Wedding Gift, her first novel.

On May 20, 2012, the University of Rhode Island conferred on Marlen an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Marlen is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Tufts University.

Giveaway Information

Giveaway is open to those 18 years or older with a US mailing address. To enter, leave a comment on or before September 28, 2013. For an extra entry tweet or blog the giveaway and leave the link in your comment. I will draw a random winner who will be contacted by email and have 48 hours to respond with a mailing address.