In 1941, Amelia “Mia” McGee, fearing for her daughter Ella’s life due to Mia’s work with the NAACP, puts Ella on a bus from Washington, D.C., sending her to her ancestral home in Georgia. When Ella’s connection fails to arrive, she ends up at the home of two elderly black women who share a lineage with Ella of which they are all unaware.
This event kicks off Glow, a saga filled with extraordinary characters, starting with Solomon B. Bounds: pioneer, slave owner and minister, whose relationships with slaves, Cherokee natives and white folks spawns a family legacy that would be hard to follow if it weren’t for the family tree included in the front pages of the novel.
The novel moves slowly back in time, detailing Mia’s own childhood dealing with taunts from the other children due to her Cherokee heritage, along with an encounter with a brother and sister aerial team whose airplane show for the town ends disastrously. Next we move back in time again to the mid-1800’s, where the bulk of the novel takes place. The characters we meet include Riddle Young, overseer for Solomon Bounds on his tobacco farm; Riddle’s sister Emmaline, a fragile young woman who marries Solomon’s son, Samuel; Lossie, the “giantess” slave who serves as Solomon’s personal caretaker and also catches Riddle’s eye; and Willie Mae Cotton, a slave who is won by Samuel in a card game and becomes Emmaline’s servant.
With Glow, Jessica Maria Tuccelli has crafted a multi-generational saga rife with rich, vibrant, unique characters, expansive landscapes and a glimpse into slavery in the Georgia countryside. The story moves back and forth in time, allowing the reader to piece together the relationships between the whites, slaves and Cherokee Indians. I greatly enjoyed the story, it’s not a fast read but one that should be savored and digested slowly.
The publisher sent me an extra copy of Glow, and I’d love to pass it on to an interested reader. Leave a comment below to enter to win, U.S. addresses only, please. The winner will be announced in our regular giveaway column on March 28. This giveaway is closed.
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I like the multi-generational plot idea! Sounds interesting.
I would love to read this book. It sounds like a great book that I could use with the classes I teach.
this fascinating novel is appealing. Love Family sagas.
This looks great! Please enter me!
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Another great book.
“Happy St.Patrick’s Day!”
What an intriguing story line with
a wonderful array of characters…
I love how to book goes back in time
and has twists and turns.
Many thanks, Cindi
I would love to read this historical fiction book.
My son has Cherokee roots!
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Count me in, I’d love to learn from this historic setting.
Would like to read.
I’m sure I’d enjoy reading it!
I love historical fiction. This book sounds great. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
This sounds intriguing, I’d love to win and read it, thanks!
Karen, you win! Please reply to this email with your address and we’ll get the book sent out.
I’d love to read this book. It almost sounds like the family roots my husband has!
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Would like a copy.
Sounds like a great book. Please include me.
Sounds interesting. Thanks for the givewaway
This sounds like a very interesting story. I’d love to read it.
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Good book giveaway.
Love to read this. Thanks!
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Sounds really good and I would love to read it. Thanks for the chance!
Would love to read.
I *love* those multi-generational sagas!
Sounds like another great book to read.
Would like to win the book.
So interesting sounding, cant wait to read.
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Sounds like a great storyline. I would love to read the book. Thanks for having this giveaway.
this sounds good
I like it!
I would love to read this!
my wife would probably like this.