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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a sequel to Yellow Crocus, but it can be read as a stand alone. The year is 1868. Lizbeth Wainright Johnson receives word in Ohio that her father is dying in Virginia and she needs to return to the south. Lizbeth is estranged from her family because they supported the confederacy. Meanwhile Mattie, a former slave, and who was once Lizbeth's nurse also living nearby in Ohio convinces her family they need to go to Virginia to rescue a cousin, Sarah who is still working on a plantation. Virginia is slow to adapt to the slaves being free and some like Sarah, believe they have no place to go, and fear being unable to take of themselves. Once in Virginia, Lizbeth and Mattie and her family are compelled to join forces, against Lizbeth's family and to rescue Sarah. It turns out Sarah is not the only one who needs to be rescued. This was the loose sequel to Yellow Crocus. It was an average tale of the reconstruction period following the U.S. Civil War; not much new to me. I could feel the author put a lot of emotion into this work, but for me was just very average. 282 pages 3 stars. This book is free right now on Amazon for prime members sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesFreedman/Johnson (2)
Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school. When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she's summoned back to the Virginia plantation where she grew up. There she must face the Confederate family she betrayed by marrying an abolitionist. Jordan and Mattie return to Fair Oaks, too, to save the family they left behind, who still toil in oppression. For Lisbeth, it's a time for reconciliation. For Jordan and Mattie, it's time for liberation. As the Johnsons and Freedmans confront the injustice that binds them, as well as the bitterness and violence that seethes at its heart, the women must find the courage to free their families--and themselves--from the past. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In the ten years since Lisbeth had fled Virginia, mother had written nearly every month, but not once visited Ohio. Not after Sammy, her first grandson, was born in 1859, nor after Sadie's birth three years later. Lisbeth had hoped her mother would be willing to travel once the War between the States was over, but her parents had disappointed her by ignoring each of her invitations in the three years since the end of the conflict.