Full name: The Revisioners: A Novel

Author: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781640092587 1640092587

In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine's family. Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine's descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother Martha, a wealthy but lonely woman who pays her grandchild to be her companion. But Martha's behavior soon becomes erratic, then even threatening, and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine's converge. The Revisioners explores the depths of women's relationships--powerful women and marginalized women, healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between a mother and a child, the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core, The Revisioners ponders generational legacies, the endurance of hope, and the undying promise of freedom. Similar books: A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black Far from the Tree by Virginia DeBerry The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley God Help the Child by Toni Morrison Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor Oreo by Fran Ross Mama by Terry McMillan Hello to the Cannibals by Richard Bausch A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill The Legacy by Howard Fast The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah