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Average rating4.4
Moments after her birth to the mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation, Lisbeth Wainwright is entrusted to Mattie, an enslaved wet nurse. From then on, Mattie serves as Lisbeth's stand-in mother, nursing her, singing her to sleep, and soothing her in the night. And yet mothering Lisbeth tears Mattie away from her own baby, Samuel, who lives in the slave quarters. Growing up under Mattie's tender care, Lisbeth adopts her traditions of prayer, singing, eating black-eyed peas, and hunting for yellow crocuses in the spring. As the years pass, Lisbeth is drawn back into the white world, earning a growing awareness of the inequality of her and Mattie's stations. She struggles to reconcile her love for Mattie with her parents' expectations for her future, intent on keeping the best of both worlds-until a terrible betrayal forces her to choose once and for all. Yellow Crocus is a compelling novel of love, loss, and redemption set during one of the most sinister chapters of American history.
Series
4 primary booksFreedman/Johnson is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Laila Ibrahim.
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aranyos történet, de elég gyerekes, és bár alapvetően kifejezetten olvasmányos a stílusa, maga a történetvezetés és sokszor a karakterek is meglehetősen elnagyoltak, csomó dolog nincs rendesen kidolgozva. inkább ifjúságinak mondanám, semmint komoly regénynek. de ennek ellenére valóban kellemes kis olvasmány volt, tényleg az aranyost érzem a legjobb jelzőnek a témája ellenére is.
3.5 stars
It's heartbreaking that the things in this book were the reality of so many people at the time, the way they were treated, spoken to and thought of is dispicable.
For such a short book this spans many years, but given the shortness there are a lot of jumps in time and a lot of glossing over events. It could have been improved by a bit of fleshing out.
The narration for this was excellent, with Bahni Turpin nailing the southern accents.