Common Threads Trilogy: Common Threads Ii

After Liz McDonald and Joseph Allen are married in the mid-1940s, things go terribly wrong on the family farm in Chatham, Ontario, and there is a great deal of sadness for everyone.

Joe and Liz decide to move to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Joe has accepted a new job designing bridges and overpasses.

In 1947, they are excited to begin a new life, especially as they are expecting their first child.But Joe and Liz are unprepared for the outright hostility they face as a mixed-race couple.

In this Ku Klux Klan country in the South, its not acceptable for a black man and a white woman to be married, and the community holds this against them.

A host of trouble follows Joe and Liz through the birth of their multi-racial twins and beyond.Common Threads II, the second book in a three-book series, follows the lives of Joe and Liz who naively try to establish roots in a place where their interracial marriage is taboo.

This novel narrates the couples trials and tribulations and their experiences with racial cruelty and death.A tense tale with a complex portrayal of loss, life and love. -Dr. Joseph Zadra