The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom.
Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife and their master’s daughter Varina. I was transported.”-Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and AwayĬonjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life.
It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times.WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing-and for the conjuring of curses-are at the heart of this dazzling first novel
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