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An enthralling novel of historic fiction for followers of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Undertaker’s Assistant is a strong story of human resilience set throughout Reconstruction-era New Orleans that options a unprecedented and unforgettable heroine at its coronary heart.
“The dead can’t hurt you. Only the living can.” Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union facet as a toddler, is aware of the reality of her phrases. Taken in by a military surgeon and his spouse throughout the Battle, she discovered to learn and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and damaged our bodies—and to neglect what is simply too painful to bear. Now a younger freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her residing as an embalmer, her regular hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer’s shortcomings.
Tall and severe, Effie retains her distance from the opposite women in her boarding home, holding tight to the satisfaction she finds in her work. However regardless of her reticence, two encounters—with a charismatic state legislator named Samson Greene, and a fantastic younger Creole, Adeline—introduce her to new worlds of protests and activism, of soirees and social ambition. Effie decides to hunt out the previous she has blocked from her reminiscence and attempt to hint her kin. As her hopes are examined by betrayal, and New Orleans grapples with violence and rising racial turmoil, Effie faces loss and heartache, but in addition an opportunity to lastly discover her place . . .
Writer : Kensington (July 30, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1496713680
ISBN-13 : 978-1496713681
Merchandise Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.43 x 0.85 x 8.2 inches
