Golden Poppies by Laila Ibrahim

 

Golden Poppies is book 3, following mustard seed & yellow crocus. 

The story takes place in the late 1800s. It’s about two generations of women connected through the past on a plantation, one being wealthy and one being a slave. It’s a continuous battle of and for equality. The purpose of the reunion between these families is to reunite the elder (now) mothers one last time as one lays dying. The segregation, the need for equal pay, the right for women to vote, the fight for all women to be free & equal are a few of the political challenges presented in the book. What it means to be “passing” and the danger it presents to all involved. Although these women are pressured by racial, social, and economic diversity they come to see they need and value one another as human beings.