"A vivid account of the moral ambiguities surrounding body snatching-for medical research-at the close of the Civil War. "Rinaldi has woven two interesting plots here into a fine coming-of-age historical novel.Makes readers feel as if they are living in history."- Booklist At the same time, Uncle Valentine's odd behavior leads Emily to suspect that he is involved with body-snatching.Īs dark secrets swirl around her, Emily must figure out who she can trust, in this suspenseful tale "with a wealth of interesting background information" ( Publishers Weekly). Annie has a signed picture of the handsome actor John Wilkes Booth in her room-but there seems to be more of a connection between Booth and the Surratt family than Emily thought.possibly including the plot to kill Lincoln. First, she wonders about her best friend, Annie Surratt, and the Surratt family. Now, in addition to coping with the loss of her mother, the fourteen-year-old finds herself involved in two mysteries. Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. The Civil War has just ended and Washington D.C. An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi. But after Emily is orphaned-as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the end of the Civil War-she has nowhere else to go. An Acquaintance with Darkness Book Summary and Study Guide Detailed plot synopsis reviews of An Acquaintance with Darkness Emily Pigbushs mother is dying from wasting disease& whose symptoms are weakness and coughing up blood. A teenage orphan is caught up in President Lincoln's assassination-and another macabre plot-in this "fast-paced and dramatic" historical novel ( Publishers Weekly).Įmily's mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn't know about.
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