This debut novel hit shelves on Jan. 31, 2023. “River Sing Me Home,” the debut novel of author Eleanor Shearer, is our “GMA” Book Club pick for February. The book follows a mother in the early 1800s, ...

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Set in the Caribbean around the time of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1834, Eleanor Shearer’s dynamic debut follows Rachel, a “freed” slave on a Barbados plantation. But Rachel is not truly free—her ...