The Orphan Mother: A Novel
by:
Robert Hicks (author)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780446581769 (0446581763)
ASIN: 0446581763
Publish date: 2016-09-13
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Two years after the end of the Civil War, the people of Franklin, Tennessee are learning to live with the new status quo. Black people are legally free and establishing themselves economically and politically in the town. Mariah Reddick, as a highly skilled midwife, is doing well for herself. But th...
This is an interesting and well written account of one woman's mission to find justice for the murder of her only son.I hadn't read Robert Hick's previous novel [b:The Widow of the South|71622|The Widow of the South|Robert Hicks|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1388418705s/71622.jpg|31947...