- fiction, coming of age, African American fiction, historical fiction
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.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Sadeqa Johnson
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Center Point Pub, Simon & Schuster Audio
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781797118833
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 6 have read it and 61 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 200685% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.- The Escape Artist 202484% alikeBoth grave, classical in form, earnest.
The Girl with Seven Names 201582% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Isola 202581% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
King Rat 195081% alikeBoth grave, classical in form, earnest.
Both grave, earnest, classical in form.
The librarian of Auschwitz 201779% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz 201879% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Truth & Treason 202589% alikeFilm · Both earnest, classical in form, grave.
Alone in Berlin 201689% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.