AN UNCOMMON FOLK RHAPSODY - Tecno-Libro

An Uncommon Folk Rhapsody Rarely does a manuscript cross my desk that is as moving and powerful as C.J. Heigelmann s An Uncommon Folk Rhapsody. From the onset, the reader is swept into a pulse pounding sea voyage with the fate of a recently orphaned young Asian boy hanging in the balance, wearing a jade amulet, once owned by his beloved mother, now the only link to his past. His unconventional bond with the ship s captain transforms this once timid young boy into an admirable young man, and catapults him into life and death situations as he becomes a scout, fighting for the North during the height of the Civil War. C.J. weaves an equally powerful parallel storyline as we follow a young girl ripped from her homeland in Africa and forced to endure the horrors and cruelty of a long journey aboard a slave ship set sail for the American shores. Upon arrival, she is sold into slavery and taken to a plantation in Alabama, where she must find the strength within herself to brave th