Junie: A GMA Book Club Pick
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
Read by Angel Pean
By Erin Crosby Eckstine
Read by Angel Pean
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror | Audiobooks
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$32.00
Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9798217013920
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Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593725115
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Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593725122
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Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593946282
810 Minutes
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$32.00
Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9798217013920
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$30.00
Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593725115
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Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593725122
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Feb 04, 2025 | ISBN 9780593946282
810 Minutes
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Praise
“Junie . . . has such a raw beauty that absolutely captivated me. . . . Junie’s quiet strength comes from the stark, uncompromising truth of enslavement, creating a tension that kept me completely immersed in her world. Eckstine crafts a narrative that is both haunting and profoundly moving, and her prose is wildly vivid.”—CityBeat (Cincinnati)
“The richly textured prose quickly pulled me into the protagonist’s treacherous yet magical world. I was drawn to the story of Junie, an enslaved teenager with a love of books and nature who must navigate difficult truths about her family and friendships in order to survive her times.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
“Propulsive and haunting, young Junie takes on the many burdens handed to her while reaching for the hope she wasn’t meant to have. Erin Crosby Eckstine breathes urgency, wit, and resilience into her preternaturally gifted protagonist. Junie is a lush and immersive story about power, reckoning, love, and redemption. . . . A true beauty of a book.”—Diane Marie Brown, author of Black Candle Women
“Junie is the beating heart of this powerful and moving coming-of-age novel, insisting on her right to language, love, and a life on her own terms. Rich in historical detail and packed with suspense, this is a story of survival I will not forget.”—Erin Swan, author of Walk the Vanished Earth
“A haunting tale about power, family, and the difficult choices we sometimes have to make for (or in spite of) the people we love. Here is a novel that takes a clear-eyed look at the brutality of slavery without ever depriving the people harmed by it of their agency and humanity.”—Rita Chang-Eppig, author of Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
“Eckstine combines the lyricism of Jesmyn Ward and Toni Morrison with the speculative historical fiction of Tananarive Due and Leslye Penelope in a stunning debut that will also appeal to fans of Percival Everett’s James.”—Booklist, starred review
“A compelling portrait of the psychological, emotional, and social degradations of slavery . . . Eckstine is a talented writer to watch. Featuring a spirited protagonist, this compelling mix of the historical and the supernatural will resonate.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Bringing elements of magical realism that will remind readers of Janelle M. Williams and Jesmyn Ward, Junie is a stunning debut novel about resilience and ancestral power that is both haunting and inspiring.”—She Reads
“[A] finely crafted debut . . . The complex plot and righteous protagonist will keep readers turning the pages. Eckstine evokes the earthly and supernatural to equally powerful effect in this richly layered tale.”—Publishers Weekly