01609cam a2200325 i 4500 512525845 TxAuBib 20210908120000.0 190404s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019015814 9780525511502 0525511504 TxAuBib rda Atakora, Afia. Conjure Women : A Novel / Afia Atakora. First edition. New York : Random House, 2020. 400 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife; and their master’s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom. 20210908. African Americans Fiction. Plantation Life Southern States Fiction. Race Relations Fiction. Southern States Race relations Fiction. Southern States Fiction. Historical Fiction.