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Daughters of the Dust by Dash, Julie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Daughters of the Dust about?

Returning to the magical world of her iconic Sundance award-winning film, Julie Dash’s novel tells another rich, historical tale of the Gullah-Geechee people: a generational story about a Brooklyn College anthropology student who finds an unexpected homecoming when she heads to the Carolina Sea Islands to study her ancestors. Set in the 1920s in the Sea Islands off the Carolina coast where the Gullah-Geechee people have preserved much of their African heritage and language, Daughters of the Dust chronicles the lives of the Peazants, a large, proud family who trace their origins to the Ibo, who were enslaved and brought to the islands more than one hundred years earlier. Native New Yorker and anthropology student Amelia Peazant has always known about her grandmother and mother’s homeland of Dawtuh Island, though she’s never understood why her family remains there, cut off from modern society. But when an opportunity arises for...

Who reads Daughters of the Dust?

Author

Dash, Julie

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14