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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.For Carrie and her best friend Zora Eatonville--America's first incorporated Black township--has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town's border to purIn 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.For Carrie and her best friend Zora Eatonville--America's first incorporated Black township--has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town's border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora's own father--the showboating preacher John Hurston--decided to run against the town's trusted mayor but there are other unsettling things afoot including a heartbreaking family loss a friend's sudden illness and the suggestion of voodoo and zombie-ism in the air which a curious and grieving Zora becomes all too willing to entertain.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 sequelZora and Me: The Cursed Ground sparking inquisitive readers to explore Hurston's own seminal work.(less)