{"id":10253,"date":"2019-02-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10253"},"modified":"2019-02-01T07:27:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:27:34","slug":"and-she-sings-freedoms-just-another-word-by-carolyn-stellings-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10253","title":{"rendered":"And she sings… Freedom’s Just Another Word, by Carolyn Stellings (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Famous musicians!
Her chance to perform\u2026
and get out of town for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easy doesn’t fit in – a half-Black girl in this Canadian prairie city, raised on zydeco music<\/a> and working in her dad’s garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Janis Joplin<\/a>‘s tour train stops nearby, and Easy’s future path becomes clear\u2026 to a certain extent of uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions, secrets, and such a 1970 roadtrip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How far have you gone to see someone perform?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Freedom’s Just Another Word \/ Caroline Stellings. Second Story Press, 2016. [author interview<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Book Talk<\/strong>: Easy absolutely must find a way to get from Saskatoon to Texas so she can sing with Janis Joplin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian prairie is as far from the segregated South as her black parents could get after the war, then a scandalous affair produced biracial Louisiana who’s done with high school and past ready to get out of town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1970 concerts, Janis Joplin’s train will stop here, and Easy is determined to sing the blues for her idol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through her drunken haze, Joplin recognizes Easy’s talent and invites her to Texas so they can sing together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm\u2026on the way to Austin, Easy can return some WWII medals to the mother of the man who was injured saving her father’s life at Pearl Harbor\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A road trip with two nuns, a stopover on Route 66, secrets whispered, secrets unleashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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