"Minyon Manigault is 14 when her grandmother sends her to live and work for a white madam as a housekeeper in a South Carolina brothel. Minyon tells her story in a haunting first-person narrative. Her voices changes and grows as she matures...This is a wonderful, lyrical, and touching story. Highly recommended."
—Library Journal

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"Mattie is only 17 when she marries Jimmy Lee, youngest son of the Turners, who own the premier department store in tiny Red Hill, SC. At first Mattie tries to adhere to traditional wifely precepts...to win over her mother-in-law and to master the complexities of Red Hill society. In chapters that are alternately introspective, wistful, and biting, the undereducated but perceptive Mattie details episodes in a painful, 22-year voyage of self-discovery. Godwin chooses original and telling moments."
—Publishers Weekly

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