19 Mar Over the Mountain
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“I skipped a generation in the Barton Family series to write Over the Mountain. Later, I followed my plan to go back to 1929 and write another American history fiction about the challenges Hattie faces during the Great Depression in Rising Above It.”
It’s 1961 and sophomore, Harriet Oechsner, has just learned that her minister father had been forced to resign amid parishioner complaints over his liberal views. He’s accepted a new position in Mountain Brook, an affluent suburb of Birmingham, Alabama – where being white and wealthy insulate against the struggle for civil rights taking place on the other side of the mountain. Knowing her father’s outspoken views on racial equality, Harriet secretly wonders how long it’ll be before her family will be forced to leave their new home…
Over the Mountain evokes the mood of the south at a time when civil rights and segregation were juxtaposed by silly social morés requiring white high school girls to join a sorority to have a good social life. It’s a portrait of both a place and an era that was both innocent and turbulent.
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