ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TANANARIVE DUE is a former features writer and columnist for the Miami Herald. She has written two highly acclaimed novels: The Between and My Soul to Keep. Ms. Due makes her home in Longview, Washington, with her husband, novelist Steven Barnes.
A One World Book
Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group
Copyright © 2000 by Tananarive Due and the Estate of Alex Haley
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
One World and Ballantine are registered trademarks and the One World colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
www.randomhouse.com/BB/
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-102064
First Edition: June 2000
Jacket design and illustration by David Stevenson and Heather Kern based on original photos © Dave Gordon/Photonica and Shinichi Honda/Photonica
eISBN: 978-0-345-44441-7
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