Conjure Women by Afia Atakora [in Booklist]
04 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost
The eponymous conjure women here are two midwife/healers: enslaved mother May Belle and her eventually free daughter Rue. Their story gets revealed in three time-jumping segments – slaverytime, wartime, freedomtime – that readers will need to realign for full disclosure of brutal secrets, hidden pasts,...