The Grape Farm: The Sequel to the Berry-Picker House and Lace Around the Moon

by Mary Pierre Quinn-Stanbro

The Grape Farm is the sequel to The Berry-Picker House and Lace Around the Moon.Set against the backdrop of 1930’s Naples, NY and New Orleans, LA, where jazz singer, Pierre calls home, the story follows her struggles and racial discrimination prevalent at the time and depicts not only her perseverance but how she thrived. Her life comes full circle when she finds the son she was forced to give up when she was just a child. The book resolves several mysteries, including who murdered the man who ravaged Pierre as a young woman.Readers will relate to the story as it showcases love between friends and family and the love between a man and woman, who thought that secure love had passed them by.It is an enticing tale that stimulates all of the senses, making you feel as though you can taste and smell the grapes.

265 pages, Paperback

Published March 13, 2024

Reviews

[Rebecca Gernon · Rating 3 out of 5]

The grape farm is set in New Orleans and in upstate New York and intertwines the lives of a black jazz singer in New Orleans with a grape farmer in New York state.

The book is an easy read and has several mysteries throughout it, which keeps you turning the page is to find out what will happen.

For me, there were far too many characters and I had a difficult time keeping track of them, but this might be because I had read the previous two books sometime ago and had forgotten some of the people involved in this trilogy