Author Montie Apostolos's new book "Beneath the Sycamore Tree" is a compelling story of ambition, love, and race for a young black girl growing up in the Deep South
Recent release "Beneath the Sycamore Tree" from Page Publishing author Montie Apostolos shows the world that black families can become successful through opportunities and hard and smart work. More importantly, it is a desire to break the mold as well as barriers that have sometimes perpetuated a fixed mindset about the black community that success is often a distant dream.
CHICAGO, Sept. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Montie Apostolos, a senior fellow with the Academy for Urban School Leadership, Chicago publicist for WNBA Seattle Storm player Jewell Llyod, and former school administrator for School District 65 in Evanston, Illinois, has completed her new book "Beneath the Sycamore Tree": an evocative story celebrating the dreams and hard work of a young black girl growing up in late-twentieth century Jackson, Mississippi.
"Beneath the Sycamore Tree" is a period piece that spans from the 1960s to 1980s. While the novel's setting is from that era, the ignorance and preconceived attitudes the protagonist as well as her family experience are all relevant today. It chronicles the life of a young black girl from a middle-class family in Jackson, Mississippi who through her relationship with her grandmother discovers dreams do not have to be deferred. It is an emotional journey as she travels the world, taking risks and finding what it takes to become successful. She discovers herself and love in the process with an unlikely, and at that time, forbidden lover and friend.
As a black woman, her tested growth leads her to have and relish a defining relationship with her friends and lover. Lisa's family's experience with classicism and racism catapults her into the mindset that in order to transform the collective, she has to be willing to broach racism, sexism, and the social norms in places that perpetuated it with a clear understanding of who she is.
"Beneath the Sycamore Tree" is unique because it exposes the reader to and defies stereotypes about people of color during one of the most challenging eras of girded underbelly segregation in the South and around the world. A little black girl becomes a determined woman because she believes in herself and held on to her grandmother's words that she can become whomever she wants to become resulting from the love and dialogue beneath the sycamore tree.
Published by Page Publishing, Montie Apostolos's engrossing book is a superb choice for avid fiction readers.
Readers who wish to experience this engaging work can purchase "Beneath the Sycamore Tree" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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