Zora and Me: The Summoner
โ Scribed by Bond, Victoria
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Zora and Me 3
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston's family and hometown persuade her to leave childhood behind and find her destiny beyond Eatonville.
For Carrie and her best friend, Zora, Eatonville—America's first incorporated Black township—has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town's border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past, the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora's own father—the showboating preacher John Hurston—decided to run against the town's trusted mayor, but there are other unsettling things afoot, including a heartbreaking family loss, a friend's sudden illness, and the suggestion of voodoo and zombie-ism in the air, which a curious and grieving Zora becomes all too willing to entertain.
In this fictionalized tale, award-winning author Victoria Bond explores the end of childhood and...
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