Three brothers from the Virginia hills navigate a moonshine war waged by crooked prohibition-era cops while a fading journalist tries to convince the participants and their neighbors to reveal the truth about what is happening.
Tag: historical fiction
Review – Yellow Wife
In the antebellum South, a biracial enslaved woman must barter love and freedom while surviving as the unofficial wife of Virginia’s most infamous slave jailer.
Review – A Mercy
In 1680s colonial America a group of displaced women—bound together by servitude, isolation, and survival—weather the devastating psychological wounds of institutionalized racism and gender oppression.
Review – The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho. Paterson Joseph. 2022. Historical fiction. Epistolary fiction. Bildungsroman. Delightful, fictionalized account of a real person who is thought to be the first black person to…
Review – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
A young woman with a genetic disorder that turns her skin blue braves the harsh hills of 1930s Kentucky as a traveling packhorse librarian, fighting deep-seated prejudice to bring the magic of books to isolated Appalachian communities.