![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With dexterous control, Ojo keeps listeners engaged and entertained over 14 hours of Atakora’s compelling debut. Children die en masse of an unknown illness, as an itinerant preacher appears to seemingly usurp Rue’s power.Īward-winning Adenrele Ojo displays her veteran expertise, narrating effortlessly through a vast cast – from curious playmates, women desperate with pain, frightened young children, entitled white men, lost souls, mourning lovers, and so many more. The arrival of a strange pale child with striking dark eyes sets tongues wagging, inspiring accusations thrown at Rue for wicked conjuring. May Belle is gone, but Rue has stepped into her place, delivering babies and mixing herbs. Wartime causes his death freedomtime enables the formerly enslaved to stay on the plantation. Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. ![]() 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, uncertain futures. In slaverytime, Marse Charles ran his plantation and entrusted child-rearing to Ma Doe while he loved (raped) May Belle. ISBN-13: 9780593230336 Summary A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healingand for the conjuring of cursesare at the heart of this dazzling first novel. The eponymous conjure women here are two midwife/healers: enslaved mother May Belle and her eventually free daughter Rue. ![]()
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