#2023 In Person Book Discussion: Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson.
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#2023 In Person Book Discussion: Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson.
About slavery, plantation life, prisons.
Moderator: Susan Avila
Yellow Wife: A Novel is a fully immersive, intricately crafted story inspired by the pages of history. 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.
2021 publication; 278 pages
PPLD 10 books & electronic formats
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Location: PILLAR classroom
Current COVID guidelines apply (masks, social distancing, COVID waiver, and limited registration). COVID waiver (bring to class).
Friday, June 11, 10:30am
$30 Non-PILLAR Member/$15 PILLAR Member