Mustard seed

Resource Information

The work Mustard seed represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Mustard seed

Statement of responsibility

Laila Ibrahim

Creator

• Ibrahim, Laila

Author

• Ibrahim, Laila

Subject

• Families
• Families -- Fiction
• trueFamily relationships
• Female friendship -- Fiction
• Freed persons -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• trueInequality
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• trueOhio -- History
• Plantation life
• truePostwar life
• Race relations
• Racism
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction
• Richmond (Va.) -- Fiction
• Slavery -- Fiction
• Virginia -- History
• Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• trueWomen -- Interpersonal relations
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• WRL donations

Cataloging source

IFA

Dewey number

813/.6

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult