by Good Book Fairy | Nov 21, 2013 | Book Club, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Slavery, Year 2013 |
The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden – 329 pages Book Blurb: When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa’s hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah—her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother,...
by Good Book Fairy | May 4, 2012 | Civil War, Historical Fiction, Slavery, Year 2012 |
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall – 270 pages Advanced Reader Copy courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Shelf Awareness Book Blurb: Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the...
by Good Book Fairy | Mar 17, 2012 | Civil War, Favorites, Historical Fiction, Revisionist Fiction, Slavery, Year 2008
March by Geraldine Brooks – 304 pages Book Blurb: The book imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned...
by Good Book Fairy | Mar 16, 2012 | Historical Fiction, Slavery, Year 2012
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez – 294 pages Book Blurb: Situated in Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa House is an idyllic retreat for Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their enslaved black mistresses. It’s their open secret....
by Good Book Fairy | Apr 3, 2011 | Book Club, Favorites, Historical Fiction, Slavery, Southern Fiction, Year 2011
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom – 369 pages Book Blurb: When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship...
