Odell, Jonathan
Summary: Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2011
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Summary: Two young mothers have each lost a child, but they overcome their racial differences to bring about justice in a pre-Civil Rights Mississippi town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage 2004
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Summary: "Compelling, tragic, comic, tender and mystical... Combines the historical significance of Kathryn Stockett's The Help with the wisdom of Toni Morrison's Beloved ." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune Rich in mood and atmosphere, The Healing is a warmhearted novel about the unbreakable bonds between three generations of female healers and their power to restore the body, the spirit, and the soul....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Odell, Jonathan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macadam Cage Pub 0000