The healing
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jonathan Odell
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780307744562
Subjects: Loss (Psychology); Fiction; Healing; Catatonia
Description: Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care. Together they learn the power of story to heal the body, the spirit and the soul.