When The Nightingale Sings
by Joyce Carol Thomas
Marigold is troubled by the mystery of her birth. Found as
a newborn baby in a southern swamp, she is raised to do the
housekeeping around the ramshackle cottage where she lives with
a mean woman named Ruby and Ruby's bickering twin daughters.
Marigold's only happy moments are the stolen ones she spends
writing songs and poems and singing them from the heart, out
in the swamp where nobody will hear her. One day, unbeknownst
to Marigold, somebody does hear.
When the invitation arrives calling all singing women to the
Great Gospel Convention, Marigold is determined to get there,
against Ruby's powerful will. Marigold knows she has a history
to learn, a family to find, a song to sing. And it will take
the power of a hurricane, the revelations of a dream, and the
love of one special boy to carry Marigold to her destiny.
Cinderella
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