6/26/2023 0 Comments Yellow crocus novelA fast-paced read that will have you constantly turning the pages as you witness love, loss, a racial division and the effects it has on those caught up in the middle of it. This is an intensely emotional story, one that pulls at your heartstrings from start to finish. Will the two ever regain the close bond they once shared? After a series of events Mattie and Lisbeth apart, Mattie struggles between her love for Mattie and her parents’ expectations. Although the divide between master and servant begins to increase, Lisbeth finds herself drawn into the white world and begins to see that divide more clearly. As Lisbeth grows, she views Mattie as a substitute mother, picking up the traditions and the customs that Mattie has taught her. Mattie’s own son, Samuel, is kept in the slave quarters. The 2014 novel Yellow Crocus by author Laila Ibrahim is set in the antebellum South and tells the story of a white girl growing up in a slave-owning family. Yellow Crocus, set in the antebellum era, tells the story of Mattie, an enslaved wet-nurse, living at Fair Oakes, a Virginia plantation, and the white baby she cares for, Lisbeth.
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