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Ibrahim, Laila.
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Plantation life -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Wet nurses -- Fiction.
Betrayal -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
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Ibrahim, Laila.
Plantation life -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Wet nurses -- Fiction.
Betrayal -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
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Yellow crocus : a novel /
Laila
Ibrahim
.
by
Ibrahim
,
Laila
.
Lake Union Publishing, c2014.
Call #:
FICTION IBR
Subjects
Plantation life -- Fiction.
Slavery -- Fiction.
Wet nurses -- Fiction.
Betrayal -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781477824757 (trade pbk.)
Description:
248 p.; 21 cm.
Summary:
"Moments after her birth to the mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation, Lisbeth Wainwright is entrusted to Mattie, an enslaved wet nurse. From then on, Mattie serves as Lisbeth's stand-in mother, nursing her, singing her to sleep, and soothing her in the night. And yet mothering Lisbeth tears Mattie away from her own baby, Samuel, who lives in the slave quarters. Growing up under Mattie's tender care, Lisbeth adopts her traditions of prayer, singing, eating black-eyed peas, and hunting yellow crocuses in the spring. As the years pass and Lisbeth is drawn back into the white world, she slowly becomes aware of the inequality of her and Mattie's stations. She struggles to reconcile her love for Mattie with her parents' expectations for her future, intent on keeping the best of both worlds--until a terrible betrayal forces her to choose once and for all."--Back cover.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Black fiction.
First novel.
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J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION IBR
Adult Trade Paperback Books
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Jul 19, 2024
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