by Laila Ibrahim This book took me away from all my other reads and now the sequel is doing the same. The setting is pre-civil war Virginia, a large tobacco plantation with, you guessed it, slaves. The main character is Mattie, a slave woman who is forced to hand her son over to family in 'the qua...
by Laila Ibrahim This is a sequel to Yellow Crocus. The fact that I read it right away after the first book says something about how captivated I was by the story. Yellow Crocus took place before the American Civil War. This one takes place just after. People who were children or babies in the fir...
Yellow Crocus a novel by Laila Ibrahim. Bookclub read and the one will certainly make for a good discussion. I read this some years ago so knew I was in for a great good book second time around. I am so glad I read this Novel as the saying goes “ Good goods come in small parcels”. Yellow Crocus ...
I think I'd likely give it 3.5 stars if it hadn't been for the narrator. She did a wonderful job of bringing the story to life. I was engaged throughout most of the book but there were some scenes that seemed to be a bit heavy on details that did nothing to enhance the story or move it forward. Ther...
This is really a heartbreaking, tender tale about a field-hand slave who was forced to tear her own infant son from her breast, handing him over to a wet nurse so she could be a wet nurse to the master’s child, a job considered somewhat of a “promotion” since she was brought inside the house to work...
After Lisbeth is born, she is handed over to Mattie, who is her wet nurse and a slave. Mattie, who only just became a mother three months ago, must leave her son in the care of family while she cares for Lisbeth. Mattie misses her son, but begins to care deeply for Lisbeth. And Lisbeth feels the sam...
I was not expecting to like Yellow Crocus as much as I did. I loved Mattie and Lisbeth. I thought the book did a good job of portraying the time period, the emotions of the characters, and the truths about slavery without going into graphic detail of the horrors. There were a few places where I wish...
This was a wonderfully written book! This book follows two characters, Mattie and Lisbeth, and is set in the mid-1800's in Virginia. Mattie is a slave woman for Lisbeth's family and is called in to be a wet nurse to young Elizabeth (Lisbeth). Forced to leave her own son just a few months old, Mat...
I would have given this book 3 stars if it weren't for all of the graphic descriptions of breast feeding. Unless that's your thing I wouldn't recommend this book. The story is interesting but poorly written so it was very hard to get invested in the characters. The storyline is split between Mattie,...
Yellow Crocus is an unputdownable book. I started it and had a hard time putting it down to get to my normal activities. I read it in two days. It’s a great story that reminds you of the hard times families went through in Virginia back in the 1800s. And when I say families I refer to both, white or...
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