num_pages: 316
description: A novel of a Southern woman trapped in the past and two brothers divided by the Civil War from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Good Earth. Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changeda denial that stokes the flames of her irrational angers. Despite her returned husbands devotion Lucinda is sure he is having an affair with one of their slaves. After all his Union-sympathizing brother Tom did just that scandalously running away with the woman and settling into contented family life in Philadelphia. Over the years her racist feelings and fears only intensify and when its time for her own daughter to marry her chief concern is the color of the children. The Angry Wife is a memorable and impassioned dissection of prejudice as well as a riveting portrait of postCivil War America.
language: English
title: The Angry Wife
publisher: Open Road Media