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Scarlet Carnation
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 4)
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Scarlet Carnation
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Publisher's Summary
In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies.
1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity.
May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant. May’s future is upended, and she is forced to rely once again on her mother. Meanwhile, the white-majority neighborhood into which Naomi has moved is organizing against her while her sons are away fighting for their country.
In the tumult of a changing nation, these two women—whose grandmothers survived the Civil War—support each other’s quest for liberation and dignity. Both find the strength to confront injustice and the faith to thrive on their chosen paths.
What the critics say
“Set in an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams.… Impressively performed by the truly exceptional and award-winning story telling skills of narrator Bahni Turpin.” —Midwest Book Review