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  • Mustard Seed

  • Yellow Crocus, Book 2
  • By: Laila Ibrahim
  • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
  • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (241 ratings)
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Mustard Seed

By: Laila Ibrahim
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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Summary

The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.

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.

©2017 Laila Ibrahim (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Enjoyed this book especially the performance

I bought this book because I enjoyed the performance of Bahni Turpin on Yellow Crocus. Enjoyed this book. A story of coincidences which shed a light on the post slavery world of the South. How the North failed the Southern blacks by not enjoining their full freedoms. How the inability of the former slave owners to accept the new reality set the stage for Jim Crow South. Stories of the displaced African Americans in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War are few. This help us to understand how black families fought to be reunified. We see the cost of war on both sides. See the genesis of the prison industrial complex that criminalise black men without cause with false accusations. How somethings have not changed even in the 21st century. We come to understand how slavery has define modern day USA even in 2021

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Great narrator. Enjoyed the story after reading the last book it was good to hear how the characters developed and progressed.

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Loved loved loved

I have loved listening to the whole series, I have enjoyed following their journey through the changing times, a must listen and a beautifully sad delve into history and slavery.

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Lovely book and narration

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The second book by this author. Really well written and the narration was perfect.

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Beautifully written

I loved the Yellow Crocus and I do love this part too. It is surprising, how an author can combine hope, love, family connections and the horrors of slavery in one book. The book is hartfelt but also educational - especially for people like me, who live in a northern country in Europe, where we did not have slavery of the same sort.

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Following on the lives of Maddie and Lisbeth

The pace of the book is steady, slow but heartfelt and skillful. It's complex in emotions, context and societal issues but paced so it is easier to digest.

I love that the book follows on from the first, with the lives of Maddie and Lisbeth. We see in equal proportions the issues and tumult post civil war USA in the Southern and bordering states from Lisbeth's white privileged perspective and Maddie's perspective as a newly 'freed' black woman (in the southern states).

A lot is explored. The women in this book are the heroes. Their strength, stamina and courage is really exposed in the in the face of the lack of support and status in society. Despite this they try to protect their children, find their estranged family and rescue those that are wrongfully detained. They are put in unimaginably traumatic situations, but they rise and continue. The racial issues for both black women, men and children in the post civil war south are explored. The author does a good job of bringing multiple issues to the front and allowing us to really feel the emotions and traumatic side effects of racial injustices in an evocative way through the characters we grow to love, and the plot. It touches your heart.

I think one of the main things this book makes us think about is what did it really mean to be a free black individual soon after the civil war? There was no real support to reunite families divided by enslavement. There was no institutionalised educational nor socioeconomic support for the freed in the southern states after the war. In many cases the structure of master and slave in the lives of the newly freed continued because of the lack of support, and many continued to be trapped.

This audiobook was a beautiful sad and uplifting listen, which I recommend. Again Bahni Turpin does a beautiful job of bringing the emotions and characters to life.

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Loved It

Beautiful written story. Beautifully narrated. Second in the series. Can’t wait to start the next.

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I continue to really enjoy this ongoing story

The first in tempos series really caught my attention & this second part contours the harrowing story of slavery, whilst also showing the hope of the post-slavery era.
I’m very much looking forward to listening to the third book.

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Amazing

This is a fantastic second book. could not stop listening to it. hope you enjoy

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loved it as much as the previous book !

It was great to have a follow up to Matty and Elizabeth's story. Enjoyed getting to know their children and seeing the affect the difference had made following the war.
Narration brilliant. if you enjoyed the first book I highly recommend this follow up.


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