He moves in close to capture Ruthie’s serious gaze and her parents’ gentle exchange. When the train crosses from the segregated South into the North, porters tell “everyone in the colored section/ to sit where they want.” Some white passengers put their hands over empty seats, but the three find “smiles/ from new neighbors.” Ransome renders the scenes realistically in bold colors, strong lines, and delicate collage-like patterns. Ruthie narrates she and her Mama and Daddy are leaving the fields of North Carolina for New York City aboard the Silver Meteor: “No more working someone else’s land,” Mama says. Warm portraiture and vivid writing by married collaborators Cline-Ransome and Ransome ( Before She Was Harriet) mark this story of a family’s journey north during the Great Migration.
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