The Orphan Mother : A Novel (Hardcover)

from clue

Robert Hicks became an author in 2006 to tell the story of Carrie McGavock in Widow of the South. The Battle of Franklin (Tennessee), one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, took place near the McGavock home. Their large house was taken for a hospital and McGavock and one of her slaves, Ma...

from SamSattler

The Orphan Mother is the third Civil War era novel from Robert Hicks. While not strictly meeting the definition of a trilogy, each of the three novels focuses on participants in the bloody 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. The first of the three books, The Widow of the South, tells the story of...

from Beamis12

The Civil War has ended and the period known as Reconstruction has begun. Black are now free, but are they really? Since Hick's [book:The Widow of the South|71622] ended, Mariah is now living in her own house in Franklin, TN. The town's midwife, her son now grown is the town's shoemaker. The blac...

from lauriebrown54

Set in the summer of 1867, the story follows Mariah Reddick, freed slave and town midwife, in her quest to find out who killed her son Theopolis. Theopolis is a cobbler with dreams of entering the politics of Reconstruction era Franklin Tennessee. Killed at a political rally before he could even ...

from iadam

I received a free advance e-copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This is a well-written piece of historical fiction that realistically depicts the plight of the freed slave after the Civil War. The South is trying to adjust to the reality of lif...