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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021
©2021
©2021
EDITION
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
278 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781982149109, 1982149108 :, 1982149108, 9781982149109
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby's survival lies in outwitting him-- even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. -- adapted from jacket