
The Yellow Wife
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Robin Miles
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By:
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Sadeqa Johnson
A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor
Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) 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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You will get trapped in the story.
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You Must Listen and So Must Your Children
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Incredible
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Excellent reimagined history and love story
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Be sure to listen to the epilogue. The author explains how this story came to be.
Much better than I hoped!
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My top 20 list
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Spellbound
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Ms Johnson did a phenomenal job weaving the story with history. Robin Miles is one of my favorite narrators.
Remarkable telling of a very painful period in History
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Great Listen!
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A harrowing novel about slavery.
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