Zora and Me The Cursed Ground, T. R. Simon
Zora and Me The Cursed Ground, T. R. Simon
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Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground

Author: T. R. Simon

Narrator: Channie Waites

Unabridged: 5 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/11/2018

Synopsis

A 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Juvenile work and one of YALSA's 2019 Amazing Audiobooks for Young AdultsA powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and the lingering effects of slavery.“History ain’t in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell each other about those lives.”When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they’ve uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk’s silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia. As Zora’s curiosity leads a reluctant Carrie deeper into the mystery, the story unfolds through alternating narratives. Lucia’s struggle for freedom resonates through the years, threatening the future of America’s first incorporated black township — the hometown of author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In a riveting coming-of-age tale, award-winning author T. R. Simon champions the strength of a people to stand up for justice.

About T. R. Simon

T. R. Simon is the coauthor, with Victoria Bond, of the John Steptoe New Talent Author Award winner Zora and Me. She is also the coauthor, with Richard Simon, of Oskar and the Eight Blessings, illustrated by Mark Siegel and winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children’s Literature. T. R. Simon lives in Westchester County, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on September 26, 2018

The Cursed Ground is the second book in the Zora and Me series, a fictionalized account of the childhood of African American author Zola Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Hurston was a writer and anthropologist, writing on racial issues in the American South and Haitian voodoo. T.R. Simon creates a world o......more

Goodreads review by Alex on October 16, 2018

I don't usually like to read second books in a series before I read the first book, but I made an exception for Zora & Me: The Cursed Ground, and I'm glad I did. I was immediately pulled into the mystery that the two main characters find themselves involved in, but this book turned out to be so much......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on September 20, 2018

This is one of the most powerful books I've read in ages. The synopsis doesn't tell anywhere near the whole story. (Which obviously is good; who wants to know everything?) This is set in two times--the early 1900s and the late 1800s, but pre-Emancipation Proclamation. Zora and her friend Carrie are i......more

Goodreads review by Lana on December 26, 2018

I thoroughly enjoyed this historical novel and did not realize until after reading it that it was the second in a series. It is perfect as a stand alone. This story is told in two places in time, 1855 and 1907 about the first all-black town, Eatonville Florida. The characters in 1907, through events......more

Goodreads review by Penny on February 18, 2019

Going back and forth between two time periods, this historical novel describes a community in Florida. Zora (based on famed writer Zora Neale Hurston) and her young friends deal with a white person who wants to take a neighbor's land, and the other story focuses on a young girl enslaved in the same......more

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