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Author Johnson, Sadeqa.

Title The yellow wife [electronic resource] : A novel. / Sadeqa Johnson.

Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2021.

ISBN 9781797118819 (sound recording)




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Edition Unabridged.
Description 1 online resource (9 audio files) : digital
Playing Time 09:31:28
Note(S) Unabridged.
Performer Narrator: Robin Miles.
Summary "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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Called "wholly engrossing" by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, 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 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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Subject(S) Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Sound recordings.
Added Name(S) Miles, Robin.
ISBN 9781797118819 (sound recording)