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Zora and Me
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Overview
Zora and Me (2010) is a middle grade novel by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon. Both authors held a strong interest in 20th-century Black American writer Zora Neale Hurston, and they wanted to introduce her to younger readers. Bond has an MFA in poetry, while Simon has an MA in anthropology; Hurston was both a writer and an anthropologist. Inspired by real details from Hurston’s childhood as illustrated in her short stories, Bond and Simon constructed a fictional narrative set in Hurston’s childhood home of Eatonville, Florida. The novel is the first in a trilogy. It examines the harsh realities of life for Black people under America’s racist Jim Crow laws while also exploring Hurston’s life before she became a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Zora and Me won the John Steptoe/Coretta Scott King Award for New Talent in 2011 and the SIBA Okra Award in 2010.
This guide uses the 2010 e-book edition of the text from Candlewick Press.
Content Warning: The source text discusses enslavement and anti-Black racism, including lynching, in the Jim Crow South. The text includes racist slurs, which are obscured in this guide.
Plot Summary
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