In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class These defining moments offer a

These defining moments offer a blueprint for how we must all use our imagination—the space that sees beyond limits—to live in alignment with our highest values and to craft a world independent of oppressive structures

very little in this saga is exactly as it seems

Finding your voice—and your rhymes—during tough times

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As she struggles through the miles-long march

In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class These defining moments offer aThe fates of two unforgettable womenone just beginning a journey of reckoning and self discovery and the other completing her life's last vital actintertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda