The Orphan Mother
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“I ain’t much for advice. Never been any good with words the way some men are. but I know, sometimes the tears just don’t come. When the time comes to start healin.’ you oughta let yourself.”
In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock—the “Widow of the South”—has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah—no stranger to loss—finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Mariah’s journey to uncover the truth leads her to unexpected people—including George Tole, a recent arrival to town, fleeing a difficult past of his own—and forces her to confront the truths of her own past.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“I ain’t much for advice. Never been any good with words the way some men are. but I know, sometimes the tears just don’t come. When the time comes to start healin.’ you oughta let yourself.”
In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock—the “Widow of the South”—has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah—no stranger to loss—finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Mariah’s journey to uncover the truth leads her to unexpected people—including George Tole, a recent arrival to town, fleeing a difficult past of his own—and forces her to confront the truths of her own past.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“I ain’t much for advice. Never been any good with words the way some men are. but I know, sometimes the tears just don’t come. When the time comes to start healin.’ you oughta let yourself.”
In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock—the “Widow of the South”—has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah—no stranger to loss—finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Mariah’s journey to uncover the truth leads her to unexpected people—including George Tole, a recent arrival to town, fleeing a difficult past of his own—and forces her to confront the truths of her own past.
ISBN 978-0-446-58176-9
Robert Hicks
2016