Forrester assumes a knowledge of the characters and their relationships, and jumps right into the story without much explanation still, readers of the earlier book will appreciate the author's willingness to allow for moral complexity: While some of the characters are either all good or all bad, neither blacks nor whites as a group are, and in the rebuilding of the South, there is blame and praise enough to go around.
All Maddie wants is to continue her education, but she is tied down by Tibby, a mixed-race child whom she finds running wild in the woods, and to whom she becomes a sort of mother. But the small town of Willoughby, North Carolina, where they settle, is not exactly welcoming, and some of the young black men seem as determined to stir up trouble as the belligerent whites are. With the Civil War over, Maddie Henry and her family are free and hope to work their own land. Arie Ise Lyfe Jay Z Norah Jones Sarah Jones KRS-One Talib Kweli The Last.
But life in their North Carolina town is hard. A sequel to Sound the Jubilee (1995, not reviewed) that does not stand on its own, but which will be welcomed by readers of the first book. The Civil War is over, and former slaves Maddie Henry and her family can finally begin to build a home of their own.
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