The Common Threads Trilogy: Common Threads Ii

After Liz McDonald and Joseph Allen are married in the mid-1940s, things go terribly wrong on the family farm in Chatham, Ontario, and there is a great deal of sadness for everyone. Joe and Liz decide to move to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Joe has accepted a new job designing bridges and overpasses. In 1947, they are excited to begin a new life, especially as they are expecting their first child. But Joe and Liz are unprepared for the outright hostility they face as a mixed-race couple. In this Ku Klux Klan country in the South, it's not acceptable for a black man and a white woman to be married, and the community holds this against them. A host of trouble follows Joe and Liz through the birth of their multi-racial twins and beyond. Common Threads II, the second book in a three-book series, follows the lives of Joe and Liz who naively try to establish roots in a place where their interracial marriage is taboo. This novel narrates the couples' trials and tribulations and their experiences with racial cruelty and death. "A tense tale with a complex portrayal of loss, life and love." -Dr. Joseph Zadra

• | Author: L. A. Champagne
• | Publisher: iUniverse
• | Publication Date: Jan 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 338 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1491786906
• | ISBN-13: 9781491786901