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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.
About the Author
Sadeqa Johnson is the Globe and Mail best-selling author of Yellow Wife, And Then There Was Me, Second House From the Corner and Love in a Carry-on Bag. Her accolades include being the recipient of the National Book Club Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award and the USA Best Book Award for best fiction. She is a Kimbilo Fellow. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently lives near Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and three children. To learn more, visit O Magazine - "27 of 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away. " "Wholly engrossing, exquisitely researched, so timely and suspenseful, I highly recommend this novel. " ?Kathleen Grissom New York Times Best selling author of Glory Over Everything and The Kitchen House"A fully immersive, intricately crafted story inspired by the pages of history. In Pheby, Sadeqa Johnson has created a woman whose struggle to survive and to protect the ones she loves will have readers turning the pages as fast as their fingers can fly. Simply enthralling. " ? Lisa Wingate, #1New York TimesBestselling Author of Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Friends.
