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    "description": "Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master\u2019s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie.\n\nWhen wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie\u2019s life, she commits a desperate act\u2014one that rouses Minnie\u2019s spirit from the grave, tethered to this world unless Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb, the guests\u2019 coachman, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-held truths begin to crumble, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored.\n\nWith time ticking down, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlled her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world in which she has little control, she is forced to ask herself: When we choose love and liberation, what must we leave behind?",
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