Zora and Me: The Summoner (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781536216677)

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 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 sequel, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground, sparking inquisitive readers to explore Hurston's own seminal work.

Author: Victoria Bond
ISBN-10: 1536216674
ISBN-13: 9781536216677
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2020 pg. 100
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2020 pg. 95
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2020 - Superior,Well Above Average