Publish Date: February 7th 2012
Format: Hardcover 304pp
Synopsis (From the Publisher):
"Augusta Branson, born of a prominent Southern family made destitute by the Civil War, is forced by her family into marriage with a wealthy upstart. Ten years after her marriage and the end of the war, she watches her husband, Eli, die from a horrifying blood fever.
Newly widowed, Augusta begins to wake to the realities that surround her: her social standing is stained by her marriage, she is alone and unprotected in a community that is being destroyed by racial prejudice and violence, the fortune she thought she would inherit does not exist, and the deadly blood fever is spreading like wildfire. Nothing is as she believed, everyone she trusts is hiding something from her, and if Augusta can’t find a missing package, she and her son face certain death.
Using the Southern Gothic tradition to subvert literary archetypes like the white Southern Gentleman, the good Mammy, the conniving scalawag, and the defenseless Southern Belle, The Rebel Wife shatters the myths that still cling to the antebellum South and creates an unforgettable heroine for our time. "
3 comments:
ooooooh. Sounds like it'll be a pretty good read. =D
I won an copy of this book on Goodreads and it was great! I would highly recommend it especially if you are a fan of Gone with the Wind or Southern Gothic novels....it was awesome :)
Shatters those stereotypes...I'm all about that. Thanks for the heads up!
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