Deb spera author5/9/2023 ![]() And finally, there is Gertrude, a white woman living in poverty with her shiftless husband and four daughters-a woman given away in marriage to a cruel man, struggling to find a way out and into a life that might offer more than starvation and fear. Retta is a black woman, a descendant of the slaves who once served at this house, and herself still a part of the fabric of its existence, but also an independent minded and strong woman, testing the limits of the world she now inhabits. What a debut it is! Anne is a wealthy woman, mistress of a large house with servants and owner of a local business on the verge of becoming something more. It is what is waiting around the corner for three women living in 1924 South Carolina that makes up the bulk of this captivating debut novel by Deb Spera. Now the whole world is upside down in thought and action, and my days are filled with worry about what I can’t see that’s waitin’ around the corner. As soon as I started living with the expectation of having a friend by my side through old age, I found her dead on the kitchen floor. ![]()
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