Common Threads II

<p class=ql-align-justify><span>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.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span>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 it's 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.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span>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.</span></p>