Cold Running Creek [Hardcover]

Zelda Lockhart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 2006

During the Indian relocations, Raven, the oldest child of a fugitive band of Choctaw, becomes the mistress of LeFlore Plantation. With the American Civil War brewing, she steals a half Choctaw slave child and raises Lilly as her heir, but the ironies of war return Lilly to her previous enslavement. When Lilly seeks her own salvation, it brings freedom for three generations of Choctaw and African ancestors. By the author of Fifth Born.

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Cold Running Creek is a story of heartache, for the Choctaw family killed during the time of removal, to the harshness of the life of the mixed blood slave child, born in the breeding bed, taken from her mother and reared in the "big house" of a Choctaw family. When the illusions of the elite, eventually crashed, destroying the lifestyles of this family of wealth, the introduction into a life of bondage consumed the slave child once again, returning her to the fate to which she was born. Zelda Lockhart, with her pen, takes the reader on a poignant journey: of not only a version of slavery seldom mentioned, but a struggle for land and life, and the efforts to assimilate, and to still not find acceptance by the greater society. Ms. Lockhart also peels back the layers of the effects of chattel slavery on the heart and soul of the enslaver and the enslaved. With her pen, Lockhart has brought forth characters hidden in the pages of history, and with her imagination, Zelda Lockhart has unleashed a story of new dimensions, bringing out new characters in an old story, as old as the cold creek running. Ms. Lockhart has carved her place on the list of gifted writers. --Angela Walton-Raji, author of Black Indian Genealogy --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

ZELDA LOCKHART is author of the novel Fifth Born, which was a 2002 Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and won a finalist award for debut fiction from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation. Ms. Lockhart holds a Bachelor's Degree from Norfolk State University, a Master's in English from Old Dominion University, and a certificate in writing, directing and editing film from the New York Film Academy. Her recent essay "Tracking Love" appears in The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage and Divorce, coming February 2007. Another of Lockhart's recent essays, "Without a Word" appears in the anthology When I Was a Loser, coming March 2007, published by Free Press. Her most recent novel, Cold Running Creek has garnered the attention of noteworthy literary organizations, such as the Historical Novel Society. Lockhart is currently working on her third novel, and facilitating a variety of workshops that empower adults and children to self-define through writing. She lives in North Carolina.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 289 pages
• Publisher: Lavenson Press (November 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978910206
• ISBN-13: 978-0978910204
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,465,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent read, March 3, 2009

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This review is from: Cold Running Creek (Paperback)

It is easy to see why this author won a Zora Neale Hurston award! It is a visit into the historical, mythical past in the South before, during, and just after the Civil War from the point of view of Native American mothers and daughters. The author takes the reader on a quest to discover just who the main character really is.

3.0 out of 5 stars Read something similar and got bored., December 4, 2011

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This review is from: Cold Running Creek (Paperback)

I quickly became bored after beginning this book. I observed close similarities (and at one point an identical sentence) of another book I had just completed. I had to put the book away until I stop comparing it to the other book. I will pick it up again, but not too soon because I know the author writes very well.