The Indigo Girl
A SIBA Okra Pick
A Deep South Magazine Recommendation for Fall
BookPage Top Pick for November 2017
A Barnes & Noble Pick of Staff Favorites for 2017
A 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Excellence in Design
Finalist for the Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award
Longlisted for the 2017 Southern Book Prize
Winner of the 2018 Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award for Best Fiction Narration
An Audible Pick of the Month
A Lariat Reading List selection for 2019
A Booklist Top 10 Pick of Historical Fiction on Audio
A USA Today bestseller
An Apple iBooks bestseller in Fiction
In 1739, Eliza Lucas and her family are in danger of losing everything. Hearing how much the French pay for indigo dye, Eliza believes it's their salvation. But thwarted at every turn, even by her family, Eliza finds her only allies in an aging horticulturalist, a lawyer, and a slave with whom she strikes a dangerous deal: teach her the intricate, thousand-year-old secret process of making indigo dye, and in return-against the laws of the day-she will teach the slaves to read. So develops an incredible story of romance, intrigue, hidden friendships, threats, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice, based on historical documents and Eliza Lucas' own letters.
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