The Orphan Mother

An epic account of one remarkable woman''s quest for justice from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country. In the years following the Civil War, Mari ...

An epic account of one remarkable woman''s quest for justice from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country. In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock--the "Widow of the South"--has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah--no stranger to loss--finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Mariah''s journey to uncover the truth leads her