But then, on April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford Theatre. Soon, Emily's mother dies after hearing that the Civil War was over. Emily's mother's only wish is that Emily at all costs not live with her uncle, Dr. However, Emily sometimes has the help of her close friend, sixteen-year-old Annie Surratt and Annie's brother Johnny a twenty-year-old, whose mother runs the boarding house across the street.Įmily's mother is near death, and Emily hopes to go live with Annie afterward her mother dies because her father has died in a battle of Charleston. Now the Pigbushes' final servant, Ella May, has left because she was freed, leaving Emily to care for her mother alone. Emily's father died during the Civil War while fighting for the Union. It is told in first-person narration.Īn Acquaintance with Darkness is the story of 14-year-old Emily Pigbush who lives with her mother in Washington, D.C., in 1865. An Acquaintance with Darkness is a historical fiction novel by Ann Rinaldi.
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