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Author Johnson, Sadeqa, author.

Title Yellow wife : a novel / Sadeqa Johnson.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F JOHNSON, S.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F JOHNSON, S.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F JOHNSON, S.    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F JOHNSON    On Display
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F JOHNSON SADEQA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F JOHNSON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC JOHN    DUE 05-14-24 +1 HOLD

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 278 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 275).
Summary Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby's survival lies in outwitting him-- even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Enslaved women -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Virginia -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Virginia -- Fiction.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- Fiction.
Prisons -- Virginia -- History -- Fiction.
Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Charles City (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781982149109 (hardcover)
1982149108 (hardcover)
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