TY - SOUND AU - Kelly,Martha Hall AU - Maarleveld,Saskia AU - Small,Shayna AU - Lamia,Jenna AU - Campbell,Cassandra TI - Sunflower sisters: a novel SN - 9781984845412 U1 - CD KEL PY - 2021///] CY - New York PB - Random House Audio KW - Women slaves KW - Fiction KW - Nurses KW - Sisters KW - Female friendship KW - Plantations KW - Maryland KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Women KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Audiobooks N1 - Text version copyright 2021; Compact discs; Read by Saskia Maarleveld, Shayna Small, Jenna Lamia, Cassandra Campbell ; with a note read by the author N2 - Georgeanne "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when the war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women a bother on the battlefront. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape but only by abandoning the family she loves ER -