During one of the most tumultuous times for the North American continent (pre and post Civil War) three generations of women both Native American and African American, struggle to be free. Raven, the
Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle is set in both 1980's rural Mississippi, and New York's Harlem. The novel tells the story of adult siblings Odessa Lacey and Lamont Blackburn. The two are estrange
When Odessa Blackburn is three years old her beloved grandmother dies, and so begins her story, set in St. Louis,Missouri, and rural Mississippi. As the Azfth born of eight children, Odessa loses her
