The Sleeping Night
Format: ebook
ASIN: 14743338
Publisher: Belle Bridge Books
Pages no: 240
Starcrossed lovers show up often enough in romance, but rarely with such convincing emotion as in The Sleeping Night. Barbara Samuel's tale of an interracial couple in postwar Texas takes readers through a rollercoaster of emotion as we see her characters dealing with love, loss, and poisonous bigot...
Originally posted at Romance Around the CornerI came across this book on NetGalley by mere chance. I was intrigued by the setting and the premise so I requested it. It wasn’t an easy book to read but the story was riveting and very romantic. The Sleeping Night is set in Texas just after WWII but it...
--Isaiah High and Angel Corey had been close friends since they were babies. Although they lived in the South under Jim Crow (he is black and she is white), Angel's father was unconventional and progressive for his time in that he was friendly to the blacks in Gideon, TX, and opened his store to th...
5 StarsI wavered between 4 and 5 stars, but in the end, the slice of history we glimpse with this story sold me. The absolute courage demonstrated through the love of the two primary characters is sheer brilliance. The simple message ... Love one another."Isaiah to Angel:"He didn't do you any favors...
World War II is over, and lives will never be the same. For Isaiah High, the end of the war means knowing he’ll never be able to belong in Gideon, Texas again. "He’d understood that his service had changed him. Until he’d been forced to board the colored car at the Mason Dixon line, he had not re...
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