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Ideals
December 2011
On Sale: December 1, 2011
Featuring: Caroline; Lydia
224 pages
ISBN: 0824948165
EAN: 9780824948160
Paperback
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Historical
Throughout the pre-Civil War South, older slaves too worn out for anything else worked daily in the plantation's "loom room," weaving and creating cloth for their families. Forgotten by most everyone on the plantations, the wisdom and hard-won experience of these slaves were often overlooked, but Lydia, a light-skinned house slave, listens to their words and dreams of a better life. Lydia wants freedom. She's even tried for it once, running off north, but was found and dragged back to her master. She never stops dreaming and plotting, though. And then, while chaperoning the master's daughter at a party, Lydia discovers that with the right clothing and attitude, she can pass for white, and a whole new path opens for her. But Lydia has fallen in love with John, a hard-working field slave, and is torn between her true love and her deepest desire. Drawing on the wise community in the plantation's loom room, Lydia chases freedom in a way no one ever expected, and risks everything when she marries a neighboring white plantation owner. The Loom is a colorful tale of two families linked by a lie and their discovery that the truth is not always black and white.
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