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Leonard meek
Author/Dancer
On Sale in October 2023
A New Novel by Leonard Meek
In a time of war in Germany, when the law of the land is the persecution of those considered other. Illiana, a young bi-racial girl, along with her parents and other are taken from their homes and become servants to a Nazi. Ironically, it is the violence and horrors that war brings, which teaches her of loves.
As she moves through her teenage years in the belly of the W.A.R., she learns of homosexual love, heterosexual love, and love that is stolen and abusive. That when love is wanted and equal between people, it is ever binding. She realizes that it is their servitude that connects and protects them from further atrocities of the Nazis. But that protection can offer danger. That her family’s history of slave persecution is not just her past, but her present.
That wars stop, but not end.
A Novel by Leonard Meek
Leonard Meek’s second book is an exploration of the impossible loves that take place during human bondage. “Slavery”.
In America in the 1800s the enslavement of Blacks was the law of the land. Especially in the deep south of Natchez, Mississippi. On the Halcyon Plantation, a formidable plantation of its time, love blossoms in unusual ways. A slave and his potential master form a bond that grows into a love that is so deep that it cannot stay hidden. Both the slave family and the family that “owns” them, watch as their love grows, not fully understanding what it means, and are powerless to stop it. Their love will either force the families to be more than slave and master. Or make their divide wider. In the end, the lovers must decide their own fate. Will they live what the dictates of America says is the construct for blacks and whites, males and females. Or will they take a path that will allow their love to grow and persevere?
The beauty of this novel is that it obliges us to rethink slavery and love during slavery. It reveals how interracial love between the same sex and opposite sexes is nothing new. It illustrates that love is love and won’t be denied.
Instagram Conversation with Dwana Smallwod
Top Photo: Jack Mitchell - Leonard Meek in Alvin Ailey’s “The River”
Sweet Gum Book Discussion at the Local Library
