Title: Southern Winds A’
Changing
Genre: Historical Fiction
Author: Elizabeth Carroll Foster
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 410
Language: English
ISBN
– 978-1-49170-108-9
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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.
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.
