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Author Talk: Yellow Wife | Sadeqa Johnson in conversation with Victoria Christopher Murray

Tue, Jan 11

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Called "wholly engrossing" by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.

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Author Talk: Yellow Wife | Sadeqa Johnson in conversation with Victoria Christopher Murray
Author Talk: Yellow Wife | Sadeqa Johnson in conversation with Victoria Christopher Murray

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Jan 11, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST

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About the Event

“A fully immersive, intricately crafted story inspired by the pages of history. In Pheby, Sadeqa Johnson has created a woman whose struggle to survive and to protect the ones she loves will have readers turning the pages as fast as their fingers can fly. Simply enthralling.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

Called "wholly engrossing" by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.

Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.

She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the…

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