the Underground Railroad diary of Julia May Jackson
Bradford, Karleen
2009
Presents the fictional journal of Julia May Jackson, beginning in Virginia in 1863 when she and her family decided to flee slavery for freedom in the North, and telling of her life in Canada.
Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley, in a final struggle for independence, escapes from her nursing home and tries to come to terms with her tumultuous past.
Chronicles the life of musician Neil Young, discussing his childhood in Canada, his cofounding of the folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield, the monsterous success of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and his unprecedented comback in the 1990s.