Title: The wake of the wind
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: 1998
Description: Set in the South in the waning years of the Civil War, this is the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and their family set out in search of hope and a piece of land they can work and call their own. Miraculously, they manage not only to survive, but to succeed - their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others.

But the South during Reconstruction is not a place that takes kindly to the achievements of former slaves, and as lynchings and injustice become a plague across the region, time and again they must make the anguished decision to leave their land in search of a safer place.
Subjects: Fiction, African Americans in fiction, African American families in fiction, Texas in fiction, African American families, African Americans, Fiction, sagas, African americans, fiction, Texas, fiction, History
Places: Texas
LC classification: PS3553.O5874 W35 1998