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Plum Orchard

by June Hall McCash

Between two worlds in plantation-era Georgia

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    2011 Georgia Author of the Year

    June Hall McCash is described as the 2011 Georgia Author of the Year for her first novel, Almost to Eden; this r...

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Between two worlds in plantation-era Georgia

Set on Cumberland Island across much of the nineteenth century, *Plum Orchard* follows Elisabeth Bernardey, known as Zabette, whose parentage places her in an uneasy position within the plantation society around her. Raised as a planter’s daughter despite being born to a planter and an enslaved woman, she navigates the divide between freedom and bondage and the question of where she belongs. Her journey gives the novel a historical frame for examining slavery and the limits imposed by a society organized around it, alongside the possibility of renewal and the persistence of human hope.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical fiction set in the Antebellum South and nineteenth-century Georgia.
  • Readers seeking a character-centered story about identity, belonging, and life under slavery.
  • Readers drawn to historical novels that address hope and renewal amid social constraint.

Themes

Slavery and freedomIdentity and belongingPlantation-era GeorgiaHope and renewal

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Book overview

June Hall McCash, named 2011 Georgia Author of the Year for her first novel, Almost to Eden, once again delivers a story of hope and renewal with Plum Orchard. The saga is set on Cumberland Island during plantation-era Georgia and centers around a remarkable woman known as Elisabeth Bernardey. Zabette, as she is called, was born the illegitimate daughter of a planter and a slave and was raised as the planter's daughter, so she finds herself neither completely free nor totally in bondage. Plum Orchard chronicles her journey through the Antebellum South as she strives to live in two worlds while belonging totally to neither. This epic tale spans a large portion of the nineteenth century and is a narrative that explores both the darkness that was slavery and the light that lives within the human heart.
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