Carolivia Herron: 3 books
Always an Olivia
A Remarkable Family History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
An elderly black grandmother passes on the story of the family’s Jewish origins to her young granddaughter, Carol Olivia. As family members flee the Spanish Inquisition, are kidnapped by pirates and eventually sail to America, one daughter in each generation is given the name Olivia, from the Hebrew...
Peacesong DC
A Jewish Africana Academia Epic Tale of Washington City
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Shirah Shulamit Ojero has four loves, her African American culture, her Jewish heritage, academic study — especially the study of literary epics — and her city, Washington, DC. Peacesong DC displays the interconnection of these four loves as Shirah grows up in the Washington DC neighborhoods of...
by Carolivia Herron
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Volume 1 of the 2 volume novel, Asenath and Our Song of Songs, shares scenes from the life of Shirah Shulamit Ojero, an African American Jewish girl and woman, growing up in Washington, DC. Shirah reexamines and affirms her Judaic ancestry, becomes a graduate student studying epic poetry at the University...