The House of Lincoln, Nancy Horan
The House of Lincoln, Nancy Horan
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The House of Lincoln
A Novel

Author: Nancy Horan

Narrator: Sarah Welborn

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/06/2023

Synopsis

An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank.

Nancy Horan returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal.

Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary.

Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters the presence of the underground railroad in town and experiences personally how slavery is tearing apart her adopted country. Culminating in an eyewitness account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes listeners on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and that continue to reverberate today.

About Nancy Horan

Nancy Horan is the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky. Loving Frank remained on the NYT list for over a year, has been translated into sixteen languages, and received the 2009 Prize for Historical Fiction. A native Midwesterner, Horan was a teacher and journalist before turning to fiction. She lived for twenty-five years in Oak Park, Illinois, where she raised her two sons, and she now lives with her husband on an island in Puget Sound.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette

I’ve read a few historical fictions involving Lincoln. Despite that I was interested in this book as it gives a new angle of seeing Lincoln family. It’s through the eyes of a young émigré, who with her family, was forced to leave Madeira, Portugal. 1851, Springfield, IL. Fourteen-year-old Ana with he......more

Goodreads review by Karren

Ana Ferreira family escaped religious persecution in Madeira, Portugal, they immigrated to the United States in 1849, and she was nine years old and couldn’t speak any English. Ana was intelligent, she picked up used newspapers, she wanted to improve her reading and know what was going on in her new......more

Goodreads review by Mary

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. I'm bucking the glowing reviews here but i this book failed to engage me. I found myself skimming the pages often. Yes, I learned things from the account but there was very little character development or plot. I feel that the summary......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

The House of Lincoln by Nancy Horan is a great historical fiction that gives us a new look into the early lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln. I love what the author did with this book. By bringing fictional characters into a historical context, she was able to present a new view, a better understandin......more

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