Sarny, Gary Paulsen
Sarny, Gary Paulsen
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Sarny
A Life Remembered

Author: Gary Paulsen

Narrator: Lynne Thigpen

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/28/2014


Synopsis

So many readers have written and asked: What happened to Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in Nightjohn? Extraordinary things happened to her, from the moment she fled the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, suddenly a free woman in search of her sold-away
children, until she found them and began a new life. Sarny’s story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of trial, tragedy, and hoped-for change, until her last days in the 1930s.

"A satisfying sequel … It is a great read, with characters both to hate and to cherish, and a rich sense of what it really was like then."—Booklist, starred review

About Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen is the distinguished author of many critically acclaimed books for young people, including three Newbery Honor books: The Winter Room, Hatchet, and Dogsong. He won the Margaret A. Edwards Award given by the American Library Association for his lifetime achievement in young adult literature. Paulsen has also published fiction and nonfiction for adults.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Josiah on January 30, 2024

If Nightjohn had all the dry makings of literary excellence but was too sparse to fulfill its potential, Sarny: A Life Remembered rectifies that by putting more meat on the story's bones. The book begins in 1930 with Sarny now at age ninety-four, in a home for old folks outside of Dallas, Texas, ref......more

Goodreads review by Kaye on June 27, 2018

I was happy to read the further adventures of Sarny, whose story began in Little John. Good things should come to good people. Sadly, bad things come to them as well.......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on January 20, 2014

The book starts out as the main character explaining her life. Along the way she has two kids that she names, Tyler and Delie. Then one day they get taken because of a bad bet at a poker game. The man that won the poker game, came one day with a wagon and picked up the two children. That’s where the......more

Goodreads review by Monique on February 22, 2020

So started on Part Two of the Nightjohn/Sarny saga and this one starts with a ninety-something year old Sarny in 1930 as she sits back and remembers her life from her first husband, her children.it is her grandson that encourages her to record her memories-- “It was him to tell me to write some of th......more

Goodreads review by Cj on April 06, 2009

This book is a contiuned series to Night John, and it's about Sarny's adventure journey to New Orleans in the search for her two children; Deili and Tyler. As both Sarny and Lucy (young girl who she be-friended) travel the 500 or so miles South they find many injuried soldiers; yet, the sights and f......more