Golden Poppies
Laila Ibrahim
Relationships are sometimes more complicated than we realize. Laila Ibrahim’s novel shows a family that consists of slavers and the enslaved in a post Civil War world. Their tangle of emotions, love, and devotion is at once amazing and confusing. How do we learn to navigate in a racist world, where some are thought to be less than others? If the characters didn’t discuss their ties to slavery, or fighting for liberty through women’s suffrage, you might think this a contemporary piece. “I desperately want to believe that the ugliness of the past is behind us. That we have moved past doubting that we can be one nation with liberties equally given.” (280)
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