~ Trade Paperback
~ New Release - 2021
In the tradition of Wench and Twelve Years a Slave, Yellow Wife is a harrowing story that follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.
"Johnson is unsparing in her depiction of the physical, psychological, and spiritual damages wrought by slavery and realistic in her portrayal of the heroism of Pheby and others in resisting it — they cannot change the world, but they do what they can, and sometimes that’s extraordinary . . . [an] ultimately moving story anchored by a complex narrator." --Kirkus Starred Review