The story of Cassidy, cam girl in modern-day SoCal; Paloma, Fulbright scholar in newly Westernized Prague; Jane, farm girl working at the FBI in DC during WWII. Each leaves Appalachia to find a new life, only to be pulled back to the land they know.
Wow, thanks so much, Megan, for your great comments, observations and enthusiasm about Wild Conviction! I would love to time-and-place travel, so that’s one reason I enjoyed writing this novel. I’m so glad you are doing that travel! I agree, as you say, "Let’s get this baby published."
I was particularly struck by the conundrum of having to avoid wearing cotton in order to avoid goods produced by slave labor. That would be difficult, wouldn’t it, with cotton being so prevalent.
Hi Elene, thank you for your great observation. Twilight choosing to boycott cotton products is an important element to the beginning of the novel, a first action that shows her sincerity.
Boycotting can be effective, but it does take figuring out how to replace what has been made most available by profit-churning industry, some that are inhumane and profit on atrocities and crimes against humanity, like the American industries built on the lives and work of the enslaved.
Lucretia Mott and her husband, as the novel points out, did successfully figure out how to replace slave-labor goods for their entire family and for his business.
And, you also found the place that highlights another character, Jackson, the son of a plantation owner -- an unlikely person to point out to Twilight the words and actions of Lucretia Mott. By doing so, Jackson reveals his conflicted character to Twilight (and thereby also to us, the readers), another aspect that is developed in the plot. Thanks again for reading and contributing to the discussion!
