Grace - Natashia Deón

Written by Natashia Deón
Read by Lisa Reneé Pitts
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes a brutal Alabama plantation, leaving behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and taking refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There, amidst a revolving door of gamblers, prostitutes, and drunks, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often.

The product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey and Naomi for years to come.

Deftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi, Grace is a sweeping, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history.

Published 2016.