Brown Bag Book club: Yellow Wife
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Love books? So do we! The Brown Bag Book Club meets on the fourth Monday of every month for lively, thoughtful, and laughter-filled conversations about everything from bestsellers to hidden gems.
It’s the perfect place to share your ideas, discover new favorites, and connect with fellow book lovers in a warm, welcoming atmosphere.
Be prepared to buy the selected works or borrow them from the Library, as supplies are limited and given out at the meetings.
Yellow Wife By: Sadeqa Johnson
Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2021)
In the tradition of Wench and 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. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby faces the ultimate sacrifice to protect her heart in this powerful, thrilling story of one slave’s fight for freedom.