A Stylist Best Book of 2020
You’re free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past?
A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton
The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That’s one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses – will know what to do.
But for once Rue doesn’t know. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle held the power to influence the life and death of her fellow slaves. Freedom has come. The master’s Big House lies in ruins. But this new world brings new dangers, and Rue’s old magic may be no match for them.
When sickness sweeps across her tight-knit community, Rue finds herself the focus of suspicion. What secrets does she keep amidst the charred remains of the Big House? Which spells has she conjured to threaten their children? And why is she so wary of the charismatic preacher man who promises to save them all?
Rue understands fear. It has shaped her life and her mother’s before her. And now she knows she must face her fears – and her ghosts – to find a new way forward for herself and her people.
Conjure Women is a story of the lengths we’ll go to save the ones we love, from a stunning new voice in fiction.
© 2020 Fourth Estate (Lydbog): 9780008293949
Release date
Lydbog: 7. april 2020
A Stylist Best Book of 2020
You’re free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past?
A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton
The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That’s one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses – will know what to do.
But for once Rue doesn’t know. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle held the power to influence the life and death of her fellow slaves. Freedom has come. The master’s Big House lies in ruins. But this new world brings new dangers, and Rue’s old magic may be no match for them.
When sickness sweeps across her tight-knit community, Rue finds herself the focus of suspicion. What secrets does she keep amidst the charred remains of the Big House? Which spells has she conjured to threaten their children? And why is she so wary of the charismatic preacher man who promises to save them all?
Rue understands fear. It has shaped her life and her mother’s before her. And now she knows she must face her fears – and her ghosts – to find a new way forward for herself and her people.
Conjure Women is a story of the lengths we’ll go to save the ones we love, from a stunning new voice in fiction.
© 2020 Fourth Estate (Lydbog): 9780008293949
Release date
Lydbog: 7. april 2020
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Cecilie
21. aug. 2020
Bøger som denne er så vigtige. Fyldt med historier fra historien vi/jeg som et hvidt menneske aldrig kan forstå eller på nogen måde gennemleve.. jeg syntes det var interessant at få et glimt i hvordan livet dengang (i slut 1800 tallet) hvar. Hvordan man troede at hvis en kvinde var klog og havde styr på sine krydderurter at så var man en heks, og ikke mindst hvordan man ku’ behandle et andet menneske som om man ejede dem(hvilket man gjorde) men det at man ikke behandler dem som et rigtigt menneske som en selv eller som ens søster eller mor.. jeg kan blive helt sur og ked af det og er meget frustreret over dette..Jeg vil dog sige at lytte til denne bog var meget forvirrende, måske er det min egen skyld for ikke at “pay enough attention” jeg bliver hurtigt distraheret når jeg sidder i toget, så måske skal man læse den fysisk i stedet for..
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