Scarlet Carnation, Laila Ibrahim
Scarlet Carnation, Laila Ibrahim
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Scarlet Carnation

Author: Laila Ibrahim

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2022

Synopsis

In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies.1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity.May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant. May’s future is upended, and she is forced to rely once again on her mother. Meanwhile, the white-majority neighborhood into which Naomi has moved is organizing against her while her sons are away fighting for their country.In the tumult of a changing nation, these two women—whose grandmothers survived the Civil War—support each other’s quest for liberation and dignity. Both find the strength to confront injustice and the faith to thrive on their chosen paths.

About Laila Ibrahim

Laila Ibrahim is the bestselling author of Golden Poppies, Paper Wife, Mustard Seed, and Yellow Crocus. She spent much of her career as a preschool director, a birth doula, and a religious educator. That work, coupled with her education in developmental psychology and attachment theory, provided ample fodder for her novels.She’s a devout Unitarian Universalist, determined to do her part to add a little more love and justice to our beautiful and painful world. She lives with her wonderful wife, Rinda, and two other families in a small cohousing community in Berkeley, California. Her young adult children are her pride and joy.Laila is blessed to be working full-time as a novelist. When she isn’t writing, she likes to take walks with friends, do jigsaw puzzles, play games, work in the garden, travel, cook, and eat all kinds of delicious food. Visit the author at www.lailaibrahim.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on June 07, 2022

After enjoying Yellow Crocus, I was super excited to see a new book by Laila Ibrahim. Scarlet Carnation takes place in the early 1900s. It’s the story of May and Naomi connected by their grandmothers who grew up on a plantation in Virginia prior to the Civil War. The racial divide is deep as May, a w......more

Goodreads review by Linda on March 01, 2022

Reunite with families from the “Yellow Crocus” series. This is a standalone, no need to have read any of the others to enjoy this book. Now living in California, these characters are living life in the early 20th century. America in trying to decide whether or not to enter WW1, the NAACP is in its ea......more

Goodreads review by A.M. Flynn-Davis🪐 on August 23, 2023

I absolutely loved all 4 of these books in this series! You will get angry, cry, laugh and feel all kinds of emotions with them. Beautiful writing and I will read everything Laila writes from now on........more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on March 08, 2022

Well Written This was a exceptionally well crafted book. I loved how Laila Ibrahim balanced the Woman's Sufferage movement with the oppression of Blacks in this WWI era book. It was easy to read.......more

Goodreads review by Carrol on March 08, 2022

Kudos to the author for doing so much research! Unfortunately the story and characters seemed to be mere hooks to hang the history lessons on. This author might want to write history texts as I think she would be good at it. Novels, not so much.......more

Quotes

“Set in an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams.… Impressively performed by the truly exceptional and award-winning story telling skills of narrator Bahni Turpin.” —Midwest Book Review

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