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Barcode30293101882509
StatusChecked Out
LocationClark County
Call NoF John
TitleYellow wife : a novel / Sadeqa Johnson.
AuthorJohnson, Sadeqa. author.
CollectionF
Total Circ13
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101882509F John1/14/2021 Due on 5/10/2024Clark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781982149123 (ebook)
International Standard Book Number 9781982149109 (hardback)
Personal Name Johnson, Sadeqa. author.
Title Statement Yellow wife : a novel / Sadeqa Johnson.
Edition Statement First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Simon & Schuster Inc., 2021.
Physical Description 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (page 275).
Summary, Etc. "This harrowing 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 privileged life. Shielded by her mother's position as the plantation's medicine woman, and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. Freedom on her eighteenth birthday has been promised to her, 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 and unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous "Devil's Half-Acre," a jail where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day in Richmond, Virginia. There Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailor's cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive Pheby will have to outwit him but soon faces the ultimate sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women slaves Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Slavery Virginia Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans Virginia Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Plantation life Virginia Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Prisons Virginia Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Virginia History 19th century Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Charles City (Va.) History 19th century Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Richmond (Va.) History 19th century Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.

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