Episode 2091: THE COMMON THREADS TRILOGY: COMMON THREADS II by L.A. Champagne - a podcast by Ric Bratton

THE COMMON THREADS TRILOGY: COMMON THREADS ll by L.A. Champagne
After Liz McDonald and Joseph Allen are married in the mid-1940s, things go terribly wrong on the family farm in Chatham, Ontario, and there is a great deal of sadness for everyone. Joe and Liz decide to move to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Joe has accepted a new job designing bridges and overpasses. In 1947, they are excited to begin a new life, especially as they are expecting their first child.

But Joe and Liz are unprepared for the outright hostility they face as a mixed-race couple. In this Ku Klux Klan country in the South, it’s not acceptable for a black man and a white woman to be married, and the community holds this against them. A host of trouble follows Joe and Liz through the birth of their multi-racial twins and beyond.

Common Threads II, the second book in a three-book series, follows the lives of Joe and Liz who naively try to establish roots in a place where their interracial marriage is taboo. This novel narrates the couples’ trials and tribulations and their experiences with racial cruelty and death.

“A tense tale with a complex portrayal of loss, life and love.”
-Dr. Joseph Zadra
L.A. Champagne is an author from Barrie, Ontario Canada. She lives part time in a wheelchair due to the progression of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. This is her second book in a series of three. Common Threads III is set for publication in 2021.
https://www.amazon.com/Common-Threads-Trilogy-Ii-ebook/dp/B07958QKQG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1613510047&refinements=p_27%3AL.+A.+Champagne&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=L.+A.+Champagne
http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/lchampagne.mp3

COMMON THREADS by L.A. Champagne

It is the early 1850s when thirteen-year-old Ashani tribe member Berko Yaba is snatched from his home in Ghana, West Africa, and placed on a slave ship bound for Jamaica. A short time later, Berko takes a new name, Jed, and reluctantly begins a new, imprisoned life with his shrewd owner. Meanwhile, in Cupar, Scotland, Johnny McDonald is like most teenage boys in his farming community, focused on raising healthy crops and animals. But when Johnny marries Diana and begins farming his own land, things begin to go wrong.

Halfway across the world from each other, Jed and John endure very different challenges. As Jed battles the torture of slavery and falls in love with Mary, another slave, John fights the daily obstacles that accompany a life of farming. But when John encounters a disaster that ruins his crops and Jed discovers the Underground Railroad, fate eventually leads both men and their families to journey to a small community in southern Ontario, where common threads tie them together as they become owners of one of the largest potato farms in Canada.

In this historical tale, the years pass and the families grow to include multi-racial twins, as events eventually lead a new generation to Mississippi, where everyone must face the sorrows of prejudice.

L. A. Champagne was born with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. She has defied all odds and graduated from Georgian College, Barrie Ontario with an Advertising Diploma. A mother and grandmother, she served 5 years volunteering for RVH Auxiliary as head of public relations at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, Barrie Ontario, until her condition no longer allowed her to do the job. This is the first book in her trilogy.
https://www.amazon.com/Common-Threads-L-Champagne-ebook/dp/B07957ZTNZ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Common+Threads+by+L.A.+Champagne&qid=1609777609&sr=8-1
http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/lchampagne.mp3

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