Orphans of the Living A Novel by Kathy Watson (Paperback Book)

Name: Orphans of the Living A Novel by Kathy Watson (Paperback Book)
Brand: She Writes Press

She Writes Press

Orphans of the LivingA Novel\nAuthor(s): Kathy Watson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Simon And Schuster Group USA, United States\nImprint: She Writes Press\nISBN-13: 9781647429782, 978-1647429782\nSynopsis\nIn the shadow of the Great Depression and Jim Crow south of the 1930s, an impoverished white family escapes - with the help of Black sharecroppers - from a vengeful Mississippi plantation overseer intent on lynching them. Arriving in California to start a new life, Barney and Lula Stovall are haunted by the past, the children they've left behind, and the daughter they cannot love or protect. Orphans of the Livingfollows the peripatetic life of the Stovall family, woven from four parallel stories: Barney and Lula Stovall, and two of their nine children, Glen and Nora Mae. Their California sojourn - from their hardscrabble dairy farm, to the brig at the San Francisco Presidio, to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge - lead them on paths toward each other and forgiveness. But redem.