Mustard Seed

Yellow Crocus, Book 2

De: Laila Ibrahim

Narrado por: Bahni Turpin

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.

Post Civil War Virginia and Ohio

A faith filled story of risk and hope . . . and the GOOD that can and will grow when you feed the right spirit within. As a southerner, my heart broke for the pain and wrong suffered by these precious families. None of my family was ever involved in slavery and I've never known anyone personally who was. I'm thankful for brave individuals, like Lisbeth who chose RIGHT over rhetoric. I'm thankful for a body of Christ that embraces all of God's children. And I am very appreciative of writers like Laila Ibrahim who writes books of compassion, truth and enlightenment for us all.

Excellent Book

This is the sequel to Yellow Crocus and I enjoyed it immensely. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Mustard seed (an extension of yellow crocus

This book fills in much of the unwritten and unacknowledged stories of how our country dealt with emancipation,as it was called, and the aftermath of the civil war. The characters tell the story of a family blended by history and their interactions. I grew to feel like I knew all the characters and their compassion in a time of post war turmoil. A must read for those whose history knowledge ended with the supposed end on slavery. An eye opener!!

Tackles the true post Civil War South

Enjoyed this book. I loved how it tackled the truth about the post Civil War south and the beginning of mass incarceration of black men for free or cheap labor. This is something the revisionist history we all learned never taught us. The relationship between Lisbeth and Mattie was so sweet and so well written.

Give it up for Laila Ibrahim for another great

listen. This is a fascinating story of how two families with totally different stations in life came together to make a better life for others. the narration was on point. I have started choosing books just because Bahni Turpin is the narrator. Thus far I have not been disappointed.