{"id":67066,"date":"2024-01-25T04:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=67066"},"modified":"2024-03-07T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:48:10","slug":"yellow-jessamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/67066","title":{"rendered":"When the Jessamine Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donna Everhart\u2019s long-awaited novel <strong><em>When the Jessamine Grows<\/em><\/strong> has finally launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When the Jessamine Grows<\/em> is set during the Civil War, but it is\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>a war story. Rather, it is a story about those whose fight for survival took place far from the battlefront, told from the rarely-heard perspective of a courageous Southern woman. It is a story about the impossibility of neutrality in times of war. And finally, set amidst the rugged beauty of rural 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century North Carolina,\u00a0<em>When the Jessamine Grows<\/em>\u00a0is a story about a farm family and survival and standing by one\u2019s values.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Image-12-1.jpeg\" alt=\"When The Jessamine Grows book cover\" class=\"wp-image-67069\" style=\"width:309px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonna Everhart takes a complicated issue\u2014neutrality during the Civil War\u2014and gives an empathetic portrait of a family that tries to maintain it \u2026 compelling, harrowing at times,&nbsp;<em>When the Jessamine Grows<\/em>&nbsp;will keep you on the edge of your seat.\u201d \u2013 Linda Hodges, Fiction Addiction (Greenville, NC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistorical fiction at its absolute best! Showing strength, courage and resolve in the face of the many cruelties of the Civil War, Joetta McBride is no demure southern belle. She deals with grief, starvation, and ruin. Everhart has created a new hero in the unflinching, steadfast, and ever courageous Joetta McBride.\u201d &#8211; Sharon Davis, Book Bound Bookstore (Blairsville, GA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe divide of the North and South was like a great crack in the earth, a gaping maw of distrust, and the self-righteousness and determination that grew with each passing conflict only served to expand the differences. And here she dwelled, in this land divided, impartial, and nonaligned, hoping to remain thus until it was over.\u201d \u2013 from&nbsp;<em>When the Jessamine Grows<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Everhart\u2019s long-awaited novel When the Jessamine Grows has finally launched. When the Jessamine Grows is set during the Civil War, but it is\u00a0not\u00a0a war story. Rather, it is a story about those whose fight for survival took place far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/67066\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glitterati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67066"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67333,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67066\/revisions\/67333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}