Laila Ibrahim
Falling Wisteria (Yellow Crocus)
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On 7 December 1941 in Berkeley, California, young Kay Lynn Brooke assists her Japanese-American neighbor, Kimiko Fujioka, in giving birth to a baby. The neighboring ...Read Review
Scarlet Carnation
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Scarlet Carnation is the fourth in Ibrahim’s series of historical novels that started with Yellow Crocus. This volume jumps to 1915 in the ...Read Review
Golden Poppies: A Novel
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, guarantees the right to vote despite race, color, or previous servitude. In Golden ...Read Review
Paper Wife
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Think about having to leave your country with a different identity. Your success or failure on entering a new nation depends on a ...Read Review
Mustard Seed
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The US Civil War is over, but in 1868 its aftereffects are still keenly felt. When Lisbeth Johnson is called back from Ohio to ...Read Review
Yellow Crocus
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When Elizabeth Wainwright is born in 1837, her young mother, Ann, is overwhelmed by the unfamiliar responsibilities of childcare. Ann becomes dependent on Mattie, ...Read Review
Yellow Crocus
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Yellow Crocus, set in the antebellum era, tells the story of Mattie, an enslaved wet-nurse, living at Fair Oakes, a Virginia plantation, and ...Read Review
