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Ashmilk
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2025
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A stolen child. A mother's curse. A reckoning generations in the making.
In the blistering heart of the post-Reconstruction South, Lavinia-once a child of Eden Plantation, now a haunted woman-sets out to reclaim what was taken from her: her daughter, Mercy, ripped from her arms and renamed by the very family that once owned them both.
Now Mercy wears lace gloves and answers to the name Mary Elizabeth. Raised in a white household under the rule of the righteous Emmeline Darnell, she is poised, proper-and utterly unaware of her true blood.
But Lavinia remembers. And Lavinia does not forget.
From candlelit root cellars and dirt roads to revival tents and courthouse steps, Ashmilk weaves a gothic Southern tale of Black motherhood, ancestral rage, spiritual resistance, and the power of names that cannot be buried.
Lyrical, lush, and burning with truth, Amanda Malcolm's debut novel is a searing hymn of remembrance for every voice erased and every mother left screaming in the dark.
Perfect for readers of Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and Colson Whitehead.
Will you follow Lavinia into the fire?
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