The Rebel Wife : A Novel (Paperback)

from BurgandyIce

This book is very interesting and unique. It takes place in 1875 in the Deep South. The Civil War is over, but emotional upheaval continues boiling in the south over civil rights. I was reminded of The Help as I read how Gus related to the servants. She loves Emma, who raised her, but now she's f...

from wagner.sarah35

A richly atmospheric novel set in the post-Civil War South. The newly widowed Augusta Branson struggles with the legacies of the former South, from the recently emancipated trying to build a new life to those attempting to uphold the old ways of life. Augusta walks a narrow line between these two...

from bachaney

The Rebel Wife is set in a small town in northern Alabama ten years after the end of the Civil War. Augusta, a southern belle from a slaveholding family in the prewar days, has just lost her husband Eli, a man she was forced into marrying in the days after the end of the war. Eli has done well si...

from tarheel96

This book occupied the morning of a snow day; at 282 pages, a quick read. The story was not terribly deep, either. So much of the text was spent describing how oppressive the heat was, or how dark the night was, I found myself starting to skim paragraphs as soon as the topic entered a sentence. (...

from MaryEvelynLS

The Rebel Wife was ok. I enjoyed the setting, which Polites described so well, and I loved the post Civil War era in which the story took place, but I just didn't like reading the story in present tense/first person. Blah! Now, that's not to say that Taylor Polites did not write a likeable, reada...