An Undisturbed Peace

The finest depiction of the Trail of Tears that I’ve ever read – Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides

The year is 1828. Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled from the ghetto of East London to Greensborough, North Carolina, in search of a better life, only to find a life of indentured servitude. Fifty miles west, the daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, Dark Water of the Mountains, lives in solitude since she renounced her family's plans to marry her off to a wealthy white man. Farther south, in Georgia, an enslaved Black man named Jacob has resigned himself to a tragic life of injustice in a Cherokee city of refuge for criminals.

An Undisturbed Peace explores the sweeping history leading up to Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act in the stories of three people struggling to unite in different parts of the South. Their narratives converge in a poignant depiction of the Trail of Tears.