Status Updates From The Ladies Hall

President James Garfield gets shot and dies from injuries in 1881, black men lynched throughout the US. On newspapers, there were drawings of blacks being lynched. Today in 2026, a black young adult on a trip with whites goes missing and eventually found unalived.

Mary Church is becoming who she wants to be not accepting others limitations.

There is discrimination even in the north . How can people not see the worth of Mary as she seems to be the best poet.

Ok, this book is pulling me in with literary fictions and the emotions of the times. It seems as if things haven’t changed and the resilience still needs to be what we do.