She’s also an accomplished soapmaker (as too am I, which warmed my heart to read) and her uncle has arranged for her to sell her wares at the local general store. Tsu is classy, refined, and very beautiful with a penchant for reading the classics, especially Shakespeare. She’s misunderstood as reserved and introverted, but there are events that happened in her life that has shaped the woman that she has now become. Tsu brings not only physical baggage, but emotional baggage as well. There is an unspoken separate but equal doctrine, and it is understood that you stick to your own kind. Lexington is still very much segregated, and many of the white townfolk are still very much racist. Tsunami Monroe is visiting her cousin Lily and family in Lexington, Virginia during the summer of 1961. I love how the narrative opens with Lily (who plays a major role in Tsu and Paul’s love affair) talking to a young relative about how she came to be, then how the story seamlessly shifts into how it all began. It’s hard to believe that just 50 years ago, it was still socially unacceptable, but more importantly, illegal to marry outside of your race. Campbell Williams has written a beautiful story about following your heart when everything you know and love is at stake. I have not been this in love with a story in a long time! I have read a lot of interracial historical romances, and this by far is one of the best.
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