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Yellow Wife

Yellow Wife

Johnson, Sadeqa

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1982149116
ISBN13: 9781982149116
Publisher: 37 Ink
Published: Dec 28 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve--a 2023 Reese's Book Club Pick!

*A Best Book of the Year 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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