Yellow Crocus
by:
Laila Ibrahim (author)
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though...
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Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the comp
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00IUA8IN8
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Pages no: 253
Edition language: English
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...
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 ...
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...
10 years ago
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