The Yellow Wife: A Novel

  • Author: Sadeqa Johnson
  • Narrator: Robin Miles
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:31:07
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Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick!

*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor*

Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.


Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.

She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.

Chapters

  • 001 YellowWife Open

    Duration: 40s
  • 002 YellowWife Chapter1 PartOne TheBellPlantation

    Duration: 28min
  • 003 YellowWife Chapter2 PartOne MastersPromise

    Duration: 13min
  • 004 YellowWife Chapter3 PartOne MistressOfTheHouse

    Duration: 15min
  • 005 YellowWife Chapter4 PartOne EvilWomenDo

    Duration: 11min
  • 006 YellowWife Chapter5 PartOne Betrayal

    Duration: 11min
  • 007 YellowWife Chapter6 PartOne Homecoming

    Duration: 14min
  • 008 YellowWife Chapter7 PartOne Delivery

    Duration: 11min
  • 009 YellowWife Chapter8 PartOne Snitch

    Duration: 12min
  • 010 YellowWife Chapter9 PartOne TheFuneral

    Duration: 17min
  • 011 YellowWife Chapter10 PartTwo Marched

    Duration: 22min
  • 012 YellowWife Chapter11 PartTwo TheLapierJail

    Duration: 15min
  • 013 YellowWife Chapter12 PartTwo Elsie

    Duration: 20min
  • 014 YellowWife Chapter13 PartTwo Favor

    Duration: 16min
  • 015 YellowWife Chapter14 PartTwo Christmas1850

    Duration: 08min
  • 016 YellowWife Chapter15 PartTwo Fancy

    Duration: 13min
  • 017 YellowWife Chapter16 PartTwo Motherhood

    Duration: 19min
  • 018 YellowWife Chapter17 PartTwo Splintered

    Duration: 20min
  • 019 YellowWife Chapter18 PartTwo DeliverMeLord

    Duration: 19min
  • 020 YellowWife Chapter19 PartTwo KeysOfDelight

    Duration: 08min
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