Sadeqa Johnson
1) Yellow wife
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William's family. But having a baby - and fitting in - is easier said than done. With their stories colliding in the most...