Title: Southern Winds A’ Changing
Genre: Historical Fiction
Author: Elizabeth Carroll Foster
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 410
Language: English
ISBN – 978-1-49170-108-9
It is 1932,
and racial prejudice is common in Deer Point, Arkansas, where the lives of two
women—a white school teacher and an African American sharecropper—are destined
to become forever entwined. As Allise DeWitt gives birth to her first child,
her husband, Quent, rapes eighteen-year-old African American Maizee Colson on
their cotton farm. Fearing that Quent will terrorize her forever, Maizee’s
parents take her to Texas, where, nine months later, she gives birth to a son
whom she names Nathaniel.
As Allise and
Quent settle into life as new parents, she cannot shake the feeling that
something is wedging its way between them. Financial troubles brought on by the
Great Depression plague Quent, and he is forced to send his farmhands packing.
Driven by the need to help and to do the right thing, Allise heads up a church
project to donate clothing and other items to the sharecroppers. Years later,
Quent is killed while fighting in World War ll, and Allise finds happiness in a
second marriage to Dro McClure. Allise’s charitable journey continues, however,
leading her through peril and prejudice and eventually bringing her to uncover
a shocking truth that will change her life forever.
In this
historical novel, an independent Quaker school marm attempts to overcome racial
inequity in her small community, inextricably intertwining her life with an
unlikely friend who proves that peace is attainable even in the darkest of
times.
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About the Author:
Elizabeth Carroll Foster is an Arkansas native. As a journalist, she worked as a feature writer and editor for southern Maryland newspapers and as a freelancer for regional magazines. She is also the author of Follow Me and Musings, Mutterings, and Aw Shucks, as well as several other books. Elizabeth currently resides in Arkansas.
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