{"id":720,"date":"2019-03-13T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:53:37","slug":"coming-soon-the-confessions-of-frannie-langton-by-sara-collins-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/coming-soon-the-confessions-of-frannie-langton-by-sara-collins-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"COMING SOON: The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (May 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-721\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/images-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/images-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/images-99x150.jpg 99w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/images-678x1024.jpg 678w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/images.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sara Collins\u2019 debut novel, <i>The Confessions of Frannie Langton,<\/i> is simultaneously the heir to Sarah Waters and Toni Morrison that I\u2019m always looking for, and also a completely new voice and incandescent love story I didn\u2019t know I needed.<\/p>\n<p>The person of slave-turned-English lady\u2019s maid, Frannie, that Collins brings to life is so passionate and singular, I followed along breathlessly as much for her voice and keen vision of the her world (a world bent on destroying her) as to untangle the horrible crimes at the heart of her life. This is literary historical fiction at its best: a portrayal of an ostensibly different time and place that catches the reader off-guard with its immediacy and familiarity of human experience. To boot, Frannie and Marguerite\u2019s love story is the most dazzling and unforgettable I\u2019ve encountered in a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Collins\u2019 debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, is simultaneously the heir to Sarah Waters and Toni Morrison that I\u2019m always looking for, and also a completely new voice and incandescent love story I didn\u2019t know I needed. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/coming-soon-the-confessions-of-frannie-langton-by-sara-collins-may-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}