The Undertaker's Assistant: A Captivating Post-Civil War Era

The Undertaker's Assistant: A Captivating Post-Civil War Era Novel of Southern Historical Fiction

Set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans, and with an extraordinary and unforgettable heroine at its heart, The Undertakerâ€™s Assistant is a powerful story of human resilienceâ€”and of the unlikely bonds that hold fast even in our darkest moments.
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â€œThe dead canâ€™t hurt you. Only the living can.â€ Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodiesâ€”and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employerâ€™s shortcomings.
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Tall and serious, Effie keeps her distance from the other girls in her boarding house, holding tight to the satisfaction she finds in her work. But despite her reticence, two encountersâ€”with a charismatic state legislator named Samson Greene, and a beautiful young Creole, Adelineâ€”introduce her to new worlds of protests and activism, of soirees and social ambition. Effie decides to seek out the past she has blocked from her memory and try to trace her kin. As her hopes are tested by betrayal, and New Orleans grapples with violence and growing racial turmoil, Effie faces loss and heartache, but also a chance to finally find her place . . .
Country USA
Brand Kensington Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer Kensington
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2019-07-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781496713681

Country	USA
Brand	Kensington Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer	Kensington
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2019-07-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781496713681

The Undertaker's Assistant: A Captivating Post-Civil War Era Novel of Southern Historical Fiction

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