Flesh and blood
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Rose is still young and pretty, but her existence is defined by immigrant poverty and a loveless marriage in rural wartime Ontario. Then passion and hope burst into Rose's life in the handsome countenance of Bobby, a black man whose… grandparents fled to Canada through the Underground Railroad. Rose and Bobby's friendship grows into a dangerous love affair and now Rose is pregnant, but how can they live together in a community that cannot accept a union between a white woman and a black man? 2001.