num_pages: 280
description: In 1925 Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor a white woman named Charlotte seeks her company and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine's family.Nearly one hundred years later Josephine's descendant Ava is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother Martha a wealthy but lonely woman who pays her grandchild to be her companion. But Martha's behavior soon becomes erratic then even threatening and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine's converge.The Revisioners explores the depths of women's relationshipspowerful women and marginalized women healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between a mother and a child the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core The Revisioners ponders generational legacies the endurance of hope and the undying promise of freedom.
language: English
title: The Revisioners
publisher: Counterpoint