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Waiting for the queen : a novel of early America / Joanna Higgins.

Author: Higgins, Joanna, 1945-

Imprint:Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Physical Description247 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:In 1793, fifteen-year-old Eugenie de la Roque, her family, and other nobles barely escape the French Revolution and arrive in Pennsylvania, where homesick young Hannah Kimbrell, a Shaker, is among those charged with preparing New France for the aristocrats' arrival.

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