Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Philip E. Orbanes For fans of Linda Holmes

For fans of Linda Holmes and Katherine Center

A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman

But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend

One of the most anticipated books of the year—ELLE

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Philip E. Orbanes For fans of Linda HolmesLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time." Matthew Reisz, The Guardian This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamed, but to Texas.