03250cam a2200433 i 4500 607022610 TxAuBib 20221012120000.0 220506s2022||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2022021785 9798885780827 hardcover ; large print $32.99 (OCoLC)1314633781 TxAuBib rda Jackson-Brown, Angela, 1968-, author. The light always breaks [large print] / Angela Jackson-Brown. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022. ©2022. 607 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print Black voices Thorndike Press large print black voices "Eva Cardon has never taken the easy path through life, but she's never faced a challenge like this. In 1947, few women own upscale restaurants in Washington, DC. Fewer still are twenty-four, Black, and wildly successful. But Eva Cardon is unwilling to serve only the wealthiest movers and shakers, and she plans to open a diner that serves Southern comfort to the working class. A war hero and one of Georgia's native sons, Courtland Hardiman Kingsley IV is a junior senator with great ambitions for his time in DC. But while his father is determined to see Courtland on a path to the White House, the young senator wants to use his office to make a difference in people's lives, regardless of political consequences. When equal-rights activism throws Eva and Courtland into each other's paths, they can't fight the attraction they feel, no matter how much it complicates their dreams. For Eva, falling in love with a white Southerner is all but unforgivable--and undesirable. Her mother and grandmother fell in love with white men, and their families paid the price. Courtland is already under pressure for his liberal ideals, and his family has a line of smiling debutantes waiting for him on every visit. If his father found out about Eva, he's not sure he'd be welcome home again. Surrounded by the disapproval of their families and the scorn of the public, Eva and Courtland must decide if the values they hold most dear--including love--are worth the loss of their dreams . . . and everything else. The author of When Stars Rain Down returns with a historical romance about all that has--and has not--changed in these United States"-- Provided by publisher. 20221012. Restaurateurs Washington (D.C.) Fiction. African American women Washington (D.C.) Fiction. Legislators Fiction. Political activists Fiction. FICTION / Romance / Multicultural & Interracial. FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural. Washington (D.C.) Fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. Romance fiction. Thorndike Press large print Black voices. Thorndike Press large print black voices.