The healing :
Odell, Jonathan, 1951-
The healing : a novel / Jonathan Odell. - New York : Anchor Books, c2012. - 340 p. ; 20 cm.
Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care. Together they learn the power of story to heal the body, the spirit and the soul.
9780307744562 (pbk.) 0307744566 (pbk.)
Healing--Fiction.
Catatonia--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Mississippi--Fiction.
The healing : a novel / Jonathan Odell. - New York : Anchor Books, c2012. - 340 p. ; 20 cm.
Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care. Together they learn the power of story to heal the body, the spirit and the soul.
9780307744562 (pbk.) 0307744566 (pbk.)
Healing--Fiction.
Catatonia--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Mississippi--Fiction.