The Heart Calls Home

Obi and Easter Trilogy #3

by Joyce Hansen

When Obi left South Carolina, he was a runaway slave. Five years later, in 1866, he has returned as a freed man and a Union Army officer, determined to find the only family he has ever his beloved Easter and Jason, the young boy they looked after on the plantation. Obi makes his way to New Canaan, a settlement of former slaves, where he learns that Easter is studying in the North. Obi wastes no time in writing to Easter, professing his love and proposing marriage. But it doesn't take long before the two realize that they have changed and have different dreams. Is their love still strong enough to begin a new life together? Or are they just living in the past?

Genres: Historical Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Joyce Hansen has been writing books and stories for children and young adults for over twenty years. Joyce was born and raised in New York City, the setting of her early contemporary novels. She grew up with two younger brothers and her parents in an extended family that included aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents, all living nearby in the Morrisania section of the Bronx.

Attending Bronx public schools, she graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1960. While working secretarial jobs during the day, Joyce attended Pace University in New York City at night, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then began her teaching career in the New York City public schools and earned a Master of Arts degree from New York University. She also taught writing and literature at Empire State College (State University of New York).

Joyce’s first children’s book, The Gift-Giver, published in 1980, was inspired by her own Bronx childhood and by her students. She continued to teach and write until retiring from teaching in 1995. Joyce Hansen presently lives in South Carolina with her husband and writes full-time.

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is really good book. It gives some things slaves went through at that time.

[Sara Fallon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read books about history and slavery. The books moves slowly so it makes it easy to understand what is going on at all times. It is also a very sad book but does have some very heart warming page turners mixed in. Overall this book describes the life about a young man named Obi and his family. He and his family had such a hard life as slaves they decided to run away. Obi went to work for the military his wife, daughter, and son are focused on finding a place where no one will know who they are, that way people will not turn them in. They are all so worried about being turned in because they have seen what their bosses have done to the others who have not behaved. This book has many twist and turns especially when a big storm hits and wrecks all of their hope in surviving the year including their house there crops and some people's lives. Read this book to find out what happens…

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ilearned to live live to the fullest because tomarrow is not promissed today.

[Priyanka · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Willow Afia]

This book is good so far, really love it :D