Conjure Women is a story of the lengths we'll go to save the ones we love, from a stunning new voice in fiction. And now she knows she must face her fears - and her ghosts - to find a new way forward for herself and her people. It has shaped her life and her mother's before her. Conjure Women illuminates an unfamiliar corner of Civil War history and brings to life an indelible character whose talents, from midwifery to voodoo, will yield her own unconventional path to power and freedom.Nell Freudenberger, author of Lost and Wanted An affecting story. What secrets does she keep amidst the charred remains of the Big House? Which spells has she conjured to threaten their children? And why is she so wary of the charismatic preacher man who promises to save them all? Rue understands fear. Conjure Women, a debut novel of historical fiction, is set on a plantation in the American South in slaverytime, wartime, in freedomtime. The conjure doctor holds near and dear the belief in conjuration and magic stemming from the ancestral knowledge of his or her forebears. That injustice is currently facing a struggle and perhaps. A conjure doctor is the name given to a person who works roots for the purpose of healing or harming and manipulating people, places and things for a specific purpose. testifies to the oppressive control prevalent in the past while drawing stunning parallels to the here and now. It is a curious fact of literary history that the collection of stories for which Charles Waddell Chesnutt (18581932) will be remembered as a major American author is one he never envisioned himself. When sickness sweeps across her tight-knit community, Rue finds herself the focus of suspicion. Magnificently written, brilliantly researched, richly imagined, Conjure Women moves back and forth in time to tell the haunting story of Rue, Varina, and May. Readers will easily transfer Conjure Womens focus on the commodification of birth into the present and see how the trajectory disproportionately affects women of color. But this new world brings new dangers, and Rue's old magic may be no match for them. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle held the power to influence the life and death of her fellow slaves. The other is that Miss Rue - midwife, healer, crafter of curses - will know what to do. That's one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of.
But how do you escape the ghosts of the past? A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and Sara Collins' The Confessions of Frannie Langton The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen.
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