Yellow Wife: A NovelA Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Christian Science Monitor Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice. |
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User Review - HeatherLINC - LibraryThing"Yellow Wife" was definitely an uncomfortable read. The cruelty and deprivations that the slaves constantly faced at the hands of their masters were horrific and reminded me of the Nazis' treatment of ... Read full review
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User Review - CandyH - LibraryThingThis is a very well written historical fiction book based on true facts. Such a picture of slavery in the 1800s. I highly recommend this book. Read full review
Contents
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Section 26 | 165 |
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Section 46 | 276 |
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Section 48 | 278 |
Section 49 | 279 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Yellow Wife: A Novel |
| Author | Sadeqa Johnson |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2021 |
| ISBN | 1982149124, 9781982149123 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / African American & Black / Historical Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Historical / General |
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