Victoria Bond Talks About Zora Neale Hurston—an American Icon
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Victoria Bond, author of Zora and Me: The Summoner, speaks on Zora Neale Hurston’s life, the Harlem Renaissance, and Hurston’s cultural investigating that includes a real zombie story which Bond incorporated into The Summoner. Victoria concludes with a challenge for readers to learn more about black women authors.
About the Book
Zora and Me: The Summoner
by Victoria Bond
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In this fictionalized tale, award-winning author Victoria Bond explores the end of childhood and the bittersweet goodbye to Eatonville by preeminent author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In so doing, she brings to a satisfying conclusion the story begun in the award-winning Zora and Me and its sequel, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground, sparking inquisitive readers to explore Hurston’s own seminal work.
In the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston’s family and hometown persuade her to leave childhood behind and find her destiny beyond Eatonville.
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