Yellow Wife: A Novel

Partial Goodreads review...In the tradition of Twelve Years a Slave, this harrowing 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 Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes around, instead of the idyllic life she was hoping for with her true love, she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. My notes...Pheby endures so much trauma, but holds her head high to protect her children. Will she ever have true love? Easy to read.

This book held all the elements that I consider good writing. Characters, scene, plot were well developed, and the Yellow Wife grabbed my attention from beginning to end. It was a sad story, but well done.

The surprises never stop

Out of my comfort zone for normal books I read, but I really enjoyed it. I felt like I was in the book.

I really enjoyed reading this