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Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
5.0
Wow
I honestly didn't think I would make it through this book. Not only was it a slavery book, but it's a book where the slave was a wet nurse. But I was wrong, immensely wrong. The way Laila Ibrahim wove Lisbeth's and Mattie's lives together is a better love story than Romeo and Juliet.
Mattie had no idea what she was getting herself into when she was selected to be the wet nurse for the mistress's first child. She went from a field hand to a house slave seemingly over night. The night her young charge was born, Mattie was torn away from her own 3 month old son to care for this new baby.
A bond formed over the years between the two, were Lisbeth wanted Mattie when scared over her own mother. It took everything for her mother to allow it, but soon, Mattie's son was sold to a different plantation where he and his father ran away. This took Mattie from Lisbeth but not for long and not by far. Lisbeth was old enough to not need Mattie, but she was still prefered to her mother.
I won't spoil too much, but there is an amazingly happy ending to this story!
I honestly didn't think I would make it through this book. Not only was it a slavery book, but it's a book where the slave was a wet nurse. But I was wrong, immensely wrong. The way Laila Ibrahim wove Lisbeth's and Mattie's lives together is a better love story than Romeo and Juliet.
Mattie had no idea what she was getting herself into when she was selected to be the wet nurse for the mistress's first child. She went from a field hand to a house slave seemingly over night. The night her young charge was born, Mattie was torn away from her own 3 month old son to care for this new baby.
A bond formed over the years between the two, were Lisbeth wanted Mattie when scared over her own mother. It took everything for her mother to allow it, but soon, Mattie's son was sold to a different plantation where he and his father ran away. This took Mattie from Lisbeth but not for long and not by far. Lisbeth was old enough to not need Mattie, but she was still prefered to her mother.
I won't spoil too much, but there is an amazingly happy ending to this story!