Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

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This "totally immersive" (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) novel follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in Virginia's most infamous slave penitentiary, as described by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom.v

Pheby Delores Brown was born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, and had a rather sheltered childhood. She is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She is shielded by her mother's role as the estate's medicine woman and treasured by the Master's sister.

On her eighteenth birthday, Pheby was promised independence, but instead of the ideal life she anticipated with her true love, Essex Henry, she was forced to leave the only home she had ever known. She is pushed into the depths of slavery in the famed Devil's Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are daily broken, tortured, and sold. Pheby is exposed to her jailer's brutality as well as his contradictions there. Pheby will have to outsmart him to survive, and she will soon be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Book details: Yellow Wife

Author : Sadeqa Johnson
Language : English
ISBN : 1982149116
ISBN-13 : 978-1982149116
Number of pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication : December 28, 2021

About the authors: Sadeqa Johnson

Sadeqa Johnson's best-selling books in the Globe and Mail include Yellow Wife, And Then There Was Me, Second House From the Corner, and Love in a Carry-on Bag. She has won the National Book Club Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award, and the USA Best Book Award for best fiction, among other honors. She is a Tall Poppy Writer, a Kimbilo Fellow, and a past board member of the James River Writers. She was born in Philadelphia and now lives with her husband and three children near Richmond, Virginia. Visit www.sadeqajohnson.net for additional information.

According to O Magazine, "27 of 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away"

"I suggest this novel since it is completely engaging, meticulously researched, relevant and suspenseful." ～Kathleen Grissom New York Times Best selling author of Glory Over Everything and The Kitchen House

"A truly immersive, meticulously produced story inspired by history's pages." Sadeqa Johnson has created a lady in Pheby whose struggle to survive and defend those she cares about will have readers turning the pages as quickly as their fingers can fly. "It's completely engrossing." ～ Lisa Wingate, #1New York TimesBestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends.

Reviews: Yellow Wife

As Americans grapple with race issues today, "Yellow Wife" is the ideal book to help the country understand how it got here. --Christian Science Monitor

"[A]n engrossing story."A thoroughly researched and wonderfully engrossing story delivered with heart, spirit, and skill—one that will undoubtedly engross the reader in the same way it engrossed the author. " --Toronto Star

In the face of injustice, Johnson creates a strong, uncompromising account of determination. --Publishers Weekly

"Yellow Wife is a difficult read, but it is masterfully done. The Yellow Wife does not hold back in portraying the tale of this tragic moment in American history. This thought-provoking, well-paced novel, however, brims with heart and intelligence, thanks to a core character who is more than up to the challenge. --NPR

This well-researched and deeply touching [novel]... is ideal for fans of historical fiction with strong female protagonists like Kathleen Grissom's The Kitchen House and Dolen Perkins-Wench. Valdez's account of a lesser-known facet of the history of slavery in the American South will captivate book clubs looking for # OwnVoices authors. --Library Journal, Starred Review

"Johnson is unflinching in her depiction of slavery's physical, psychological, and spiritual toll, as well as realistic in her portrayal of Pheby and others' heroism in resisting it— they can't change the world, but they can do what they can, and sometimes that's extraordinary..." --Kirkus, Starred Review

Rarely do I get to read a novel that is so completely engaging, so meticulously researched, and so topical. Sadeqa Johnson has given a new spin on a story we all think we know, making it incredibly accessible and genuine. This novel is engrossing and suspenseful, and I definitely suggest it. --Kathleen Grissom New York Times Bestselling author of Glory Over Everything and The Kitchen House

"A truly immersive, meticulously produced story inspired by history's pages." Sadeqa Johnson has created a lady in Pheby whose struggle to survive and defend those she cares about will have readers turning the pages as quickly as their fingers can fly. "It's completely engrossing." --Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends.

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